INDIA FIRST: The Great Gamechanger

Narendra Damodardas Modi is the eye of the storm. Perhaps storm is too mild a term to describe the economic hurricane the prime minister unleashed across the country on 8 November by demonetising high value currency notes. It sucked a mind-befuddling Rs 15 lakh crore into its towering vortex and rendered them void. It was the great leveller, sending the rich and the poor scurrying to banks