<b>Sunanda K Datta-Ray:</b> The 'generosity' of Narendra Modi

We are lucky. Indians didn't have to surrender all their liquid assets

Whoever would have thought that Narendra Modi’s kindness and generosity would have struck us in the middle of the Nile with the same blinding clarity that converted Saul into Paul? For non-Bible readers, Saul was the Pharisee who made a habit of persecuting Jesus’ followers. But when light dawned on him on the road to Damascus he became a fervent Christian and the devout apostle Paul. We, too, began to see demonetisation in a benign new light after a conversation that led to Hisham Matar’s beautifully written novel In the Country of Men. The thought in all our minds was