Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on the night of November 8, declared Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes illegal tender. The decision caused inconvenience to many people in the coming days, but they tried to ease the pain in their own different and sometimes humorous ways.
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It is somewhat natural to feel hungry when your are standing idle for hours, waiting for your turn to get your work done. The Sikhs of Biswanath Chariali in Assam also felt that the people standing in queues outside ATMs and banks must be hungry and needed some snack to fuel up so they offered tea and pakoras to them. (Photo: Harjinder S Kukreja/Twitter)
There were some others who did not lined up, either to deposit or withdraw money, but they still came to banks and ATMs just to ease the pain of their fellow citizens waiting in queues for hours for their turn. This man in Ahmedabad distributed bottles to people standing in queues to exchange their currency at a mobile bank. (Photo: AP)
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International sand artist and Padma Shri Awardee Sudarsan Pattnaik was among the several people who welcomed the demonetisation move. He conveyed his message on the government's war against the black money through what he is best at sand art. \"Beginning of a Clean India: RIP Black Money,\" reads the description on his sand art at Puri beach in Odisha.(Photo: Twitter/@sudarsansand)
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