Last year, India witnessed perhaps the most disruptive policy move the world has seen in recent times: demonetisation. The policy affected each and every citizen and its effects are still being felt. It has resulted in an intense reverse-migration from urban to rural areas as labourers went “They took our jobs!” Demand for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) has gone through the roof (prompting the Finance Minister to allocate Rs 48,000 crore to the scheme in Budget 2017) since labourers went, “Oi Gormint, now give us jobs!” It has also had some positive effects like a sharp spike in advance taxes collected last year. The Income Tax department now has a motherload of data to play around with and lakhs of people to prosecute for being shady all these years.