Banking Central | Loathed more often than loved, here’s a parting note from Rs 2,000 notes

Dear citizens,

As we write this to you, only a handful of us are still in circulation — just about Rs 9,000 crore in worth — as against Rs 3.56 lakh crore in May 2023 when the Uncle Sam of Indian lenders, the Reserve Bank of India, decided that our time was up in the world.

To put it in other words, more than 97 percent of us are back in the system by now. To be precise, 97.38 percent of Rs 2,000 currency…