Dear Modi Ji, How About a Poem on Note Ban For a Reality Check?

This poem captures the essence of demonetisation perfectly.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: AP)

Demonetisation has hit us hard. Some people are in favour of the move while some abhor it. While all of us have a lot to say about it, there is one artist who has penned down his thoughts beautifully on the impact that demonetisation has left on us.

Capturing the essence of demonetisation, Prabal Mohanty, from Vishakhapatnam wrote an amazing poem titled ‘The Monetisation Effect’.

The Monetisation Effect

Some home truths are evident, some take time
Some hit you much later, some stay a paradigm
Some reflect the ethos, of a life sublime
But what can one say of the demonetisation enzyme?

What started as just another innocuous ‘mann ki baat’
Developed into a sabre-rattling tit-for-tat
The spectre of orphaned currency took a bloodbath
With an effervescent Prime Minister on a warpath.

It took some time for people to be patient and calm
As one after another extolled its underlying charm
If you are plain and honest, it can do you no harm
Was the chorus from ministers and babus, ad nauseam.

No pain, no gain was the gushing line
As the queues got longer at the ATM shrine
Foul were the words, cursed were the swine
Who had thought of this blood-curdling anodyne.

Easier said than done is often said
But uneasy lies the crown, which is imperfectly made
A virtue with multiple vice is a poor crusade
that will put paid to a poorly put masquerade.