On November 8, 2016, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi stunned millions of viewers watching his surprise address to the nation on television during prime time, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma was about to leave for dinner at Mumbai’s Leopold Café. He was on a fund-raising mission, for which he was flying off to Hong Kong the next morning. Mr Sharma narrated the events of that evening in an interview to this newspaper later, after the banning of big currency notes or “demonetisation” had made his company a star, almost overnight. As he was travelling, he had missed out on the
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