Monday, January 9, 2017

Abhimanyu & Demonetisation

Everybody loves the story of Abhimanyu in the Mahabharata. This son of Arjuna and Subhadra was a young lad who knew how to enter a battle formation called Chakravyuha but did not know how to get out. 

The world is full of seductive Charavyuhas that enchant and entrap, young and ambitious but ill-prepared and valorous and impressionable Abhimanyus, who believe they can solve any problem in the world. 

The Abhimanyus find themselves choked because they bit off more than they could chew, unable to cry out for help.

Is Demonetisation the Chakravayuh into which Modi ji has lead his Government and India? His ministers are now spending hours going over strategies, editing them endlessly, preparing charts after charts, trying hard to mask their confusion and clueless. (Drawing courtesy Devdutt Pattanaik)