mr shourie describes it as "the world's largest money—laundering scheme".a way with words and both the people, critics of mr modi you have quoted were people who... he has a real point. no, he does not have a point. mr chidambaram, i interviewed him not so long ago. he says it is the biggest scam of 2016. mr chidambaram may have it. what has happened is that you had 90% of the de—monetised money coming back into the banks, number one... now regarded as legitimate. it is not legitimate any more. because that money now has an address. next step is for them to account for that money. it's the second step which has been very conveniently left out. just because money is deposited into the banks doesn't make it legitimate. had that been the case, we would not have had money—laundering operations. done through normal banking operations. i think what is very important is that the critics of mr modi were struck by one thing, the sheer audacity of this. something which takes into account 86% of the cash which was in circulation in india was de—monetised. it affected