NEW DELHI "We thought it was a matter of just 50 days!" lamented Suman Bhatt, a mother of two, who yet again was waiting in line for a cash machine, weeks into a banking crisis of the Indian prime minister's making.
At midnight on Nov. 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi banned the use of 500- and 1,000-rupee bank notes, 86% of the money in circulation by value, to stop the flow of "black money," or hidden wealth. For Bhatt and millions like her, the botched execution of the reform -- not the crackdown itself -- has been maddening.
