Notes Ban 'Despotic' And 'Authoritarian': Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen

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It's "despotic", "authoritarian", says Prof. Amartya Sen on government's notes ban. Speaking to NDTV from Harvard, the Nobel laureate said the government was breaking the promise that a promissory note makes, and was treating everyone as "potential racketeer" until he or she could prove otherwise.

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