Author: Manoranjan Roy
Eight years after demonetisation convulsed the Indian economy, a close reading of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) annual reports and Right to Information (RTI) disclosures reveals what official accounts never acknowledged: a currency management system riddled with gaps, missing records, and unanswered billions. What was projected in 2016 as a decisive strike on black money now appears to have produced a far more complex problem, as the numbers no longer reconcile. The shocking discrepancies fall along three clear fault lines: mismatches between notes printed and those received by the RBI; inconsistencies in the accounting of soiled and destroyed currency;…
As news of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) action against Anil Ambani has become almost a regular feature in India’s financial headlines, a fresh investigation brings to light a detailed, document-backed complaint that has been in circulation for years, yet has met a wall of institutional silence. >> NAME-CHANGE MAZE Documents available with this author show that a chain of electricity companies such as Bombay Suburban Electric Supply Ltd. (BSES), Anil Ambani-led Reliance Energy Ltd (REL), and Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (RInfra) allegedly functioned through falsified incorporation records, serial illegal name changes, and the large-scale siphoning of public funds collected as taxes…
For the moment, set aside the political din around Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs): Rahul Gandhi’s “vote chori” slogan, opposition sound bites and the routine dismissal of concerns as conspiracy. What demands attention instead is a growing body of documentary evidence relating to the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly election. An investigation grounded in Right to Information (RTI) disclosures and official records raises serious, unresolved questions about the integrity of India’s electoral machinery. The material points to a disturbing sequence of anomalies: excessive procurement of EVM components, unexplained changes in machine models, irreconcilable discrepancies between official records, and vote counts per machine that…
