'Modi'fied banking rules, a Rs 140-bn scandal and a mortified common man

Will the upright citizen now start thinking that paying taxes and servicing loans honestly is for fools?

I’m no good with financials. When people talk about futures and hedging and shorting, I think of retirement, shrubbery, and electrical fires. When they talk about interest rates and capital gains, I think about guitar practice and metro lines. But I have come to realise that there’s a lot of money to be made in India if you’re good with financials—and by good, I mean so bad that it’s criminal.

I only dimly understand the Nirav Modi-Punjab National Bank scam because of the helpful ‘explainers’ put out by Reuters and The Wire and scroll.in etc. Some badly brought up