The Parliamentary Committee, which is probing the government’s decision to demonetise high value notes, recently raised a number of questions before the RBI governor Urijit Patel, and has summoned him later this month. Simultaneously, the Supreme Court case challenging the notes ban, including its legality among other issues, is ongoing. Against this backdrop, CPR Fellow Dr Namita Wahi, the in-house legal expert, deconstructs the legality of demonetisation in this podcast, the third in a series on this subject, where the previous episodes explored economic fallouts and shared coping mechanisms of informal workers. Dr Wahi had earlier written about this issue in an article in 'Economic Times'.

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The urban team at the Centre for Policy Research carried out intensive field work over two weeks, where the researchers interviewed workers across categories of informal work in Delhi to understand how they have coped with the impact of demonetisation or ‘notebandi’, as it is commonly called.

Senior Researchers Mukta Naik and Ashwin Parulkar and Research Associates Eesha Kunduri and Manish unpack their findings on informal workers' strategies of coping with ‘notebandi’ in this podcast.

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The urban team at the Centre for Policy Research carried out intensive field work over two weeks, where the researchers interviewed workers across categories of informal work in Delhi to understand how they have coped with the impact of demonetisation or ‘notebandi’, as it is commonly called.

Senior Researchers Mukta Naik and Ashwin Parulkar and Research Associates Eesha Kunduri and Manish unpack their findings on informal workers' strategies of coping with ‘notebandi’ in this podcast.

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The India-Pakistan relationship has been at an all-time low since the Uri attack, with India closely watching the change in guard of the Pakistani army chief, the de-facto power centre there. With the replacement of Raheel Sharif with General Qamar Javed Bajwa last week, who is known to be pro-democracy, a new equation is expected to take shape between the two countries, and the larger geopolitical scenario is also likely to be impacted. Ambassador G Parthsarathy, a career diplomat and Honorary Research professor at CPR, who has also been the High Commissioner of India to Pakistan, explains what General Qamar Javed Bajwa's appointment as the new Army Chief of Pakistan means for India and the region at large.

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The India-Pakistan relationship has been at an all-time low since the Uri attack, with India closely watching the change in guard of the Pakistani army chief, the de-facto power centre there. With the replacement of Raheel Sharif with General Qamar Javed Bajwa last week, who is known to be pro-democracy, a new equation is expected to take shape between the two countries, and the larger geopolitical scenario is also likely to be impacted. Ambassador G Parthsarathy, a career diplomat and Honorary Research professor at CPR, who has also been the High Commissioner of India to Pakistan, explains what General Qamar Javed Bajwa's appointment as the new Army Chief of Pakistan means for India and the region at large.

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On the night of November 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the withdrawal of 500 and 1000 rupee notes from the market, with immediate effect, with the aim of curbing black money. While this move at demonetisation was hailed with great enthusiasm when announced, the euphoria soon gave way to frustration, anger and resentment, as the ‘inconvenience’ faced by people continued to mount with banks and ATMs running out of the new notes. Is the move worth the trouble people are going through? Will the micro overshadow the macro? What are the larger benefits? How are things likely to unfold? Dr Rajiv Kumar, a well-known economist and Senior Fellow at CPR deconstructs this more deeply in this podcast, beyond the binaries.

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On the night of November 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the withdrawal of 500 and 1000 rupee notes from the market, with immediate effect, with the aim of curbing black money. While this move at demonetisation was hailed with great enthusiasm when announced, the euphoria soon gave way to frustration, anger and resentment, as the ‘inconvenience’ faced by people continued to mount with banks and ATMs running out of the new notes. Is the move worth the trouble people are going through? Will the micro overshadow the macro? What are the larger benefits? How are things likely to unfold? Dr Rajiv Kumar, a well-known economist and Senior Fellow at CPR deconstructs this more deeply in this podcast, beyond the binaries.

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Relations between India and China have changed considerably over the past decade as China’s growth rate outpaced India’s, placing both countries in unique and different positions in the current global geopolitical context. This has been most evident in recent times with China’s open opposition to India’s NSG membership bid; its blocking India’s move to ban Masood Azhar, among other things, while India has grown increasingly closer to the US, and not shied away from a muscular response to terrorism emanating from Pakistani soil. Add to this Donald Trump’s victory in the recent US elections and what this posits for the future. In this podcast, Shyam Saran, a senior fellow at CPR, a career diplomat, and an expert on China, analyses the evolving India-China relations, and their future trajectory.

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Relations between India and China have changed considerably over the past decade as China’s growth rate outpaced India’s, placing both countries in unique and different positions in the current global geopolitical context. This has been most evident in recent times with China’s open opposition to India’s NSG membership bid; its blocking India’s move to ban Masood Azhar, among other things, while India has grown increasingly closer to the US, and not shied away from a muscular response to terrorism emanating from Pakistani soil. Add to this Donald Trump’s victory in the recent US elections and what this posits for the future. In this podcast, Shyam Saran, a senior fellow at CPR, a career diplomat, and an expert on China, analyses the evolving India-China relations, and their future trajectory.

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On November 8, the American electorate voted in Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, a phenomenon that the world is trying to deconstruct. Neelanjan Sircar, a Senior Fellow at CPR and an in-house election expert, who was born and raised in the US, unpacks the results of these presidential elections in this podcast. He both contextualises Donald Trump's victory historically and analyses it by interpreting the data available.

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