Siri Bulusu

Siri Bulusu covers tax policy for Bloomberg BNA and is based in New Delhi, India.

Siri Bulusu is a special correspondent for Bloomberg BNA and is based in New Delhi, India. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University where she specialized in national security reporting. Siri’s work has been featured in the Washington Post, WBEZ Chicago and Deutsche Welle. Follow her on Twitter at @siri_notsiri.

Two weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetization of 500 and 1000 rupee currency notes, residents of south Delhi continue to line up in front of ATMs in hopes of withdrawing cash.

India’s crisis over bank notes hits women especially hard

November 22, 2016Economics

The Indian government took 500 and 1,000 rupee notes out of circulation to crack down on tax evasion and corruption. But the people feeling it most are at the bottom of the economic ladder — women without bank accounts.