Hard work, note ban and Amartya Sen: Why PM Modi dislikes Harvard

This is not the first time Modi is using the 'hard work over Harvard' pun to make a point

Post demonetisation, there were two insightful publications from Harvard’s stables seeking to dissect the ambitious move. One of them was written by Bhaskar Chakravorti, a professor at Tufts University who published his analysis titled ‘India’s Botched War On Cash’ published on December 14, 2016, in the Harvard Business Review. More than a month before Chakravorti vented his ire on Modi’s move, Kenneth Rogoff, a public policy professor at Harvard University had hailed demonetisation calling it “a bold and audacious move to radically alter the mindset of an economy where less than two per cent of the population pays tax and