Condition of the Indian rupee and the Indian citizen. in a way an ordinary person can understand.

 What is the condition of the Indian rupee and the Indian citizen?

I should explain it in a way an ordinary person can understand, right?

Isn’t it the ordinary person who gets tricked and dazzled with numbers they don’t have and don’t understand?

Has the Indian’s income increased?

No.

But it will seem like the Indian’s income has increased — it will be made to seem so.

Not only has it not increased, in reality it has actually decreased significantly.

In quantity, it will seem to have increased.

But in quality and effect, it will be understood to have decreased drastically.

Did the Indian’s income go from ten rupees to a hundred rupees?

It will seem so, it can be said so.

But even if it seems so and is said so, that is not progress or growth.

Why is going from ten rupees to a hundred rupees not progress or growth?

The answer is simple.

That entire increase is only a quarter — or maybe not even a quarter — of the rupee’s loss in value.

Why? The reason is very simple.

The things that were bought for ten rupees in the past cannot be bought today even for a hundred or two hundred rupees.

Here, price rise and the rupee’s devaluation have happened at a much faster rate than the rise in income.

The rupee’s devaluation isn’t just against the dollar.

Domestically, the rupee has lost far more value than it has against the dollar — and continues to do so.

Rice that used to cost one or two rupees now costs sixty or seventy rupees. That’s a thirty-to-sixty-fold increase.

Coconut oil that used to cost six rupees now costs three hundred rupees — a fifty-fold increase.

At the start of the 2000s, gold was just three thousand rupees a pavan (8 grams). Today it is one lakh ten thousand rupees.

A thirty-five-fold increase in just twenty-five years.

In fact, rice that cost just fourteen rupees in 2014 costs seventy-five rupees today.

Going from 2014 to 2026, that’s a five-fold price increase — a five-fold devaluation of the rupee — just for a basic food item like rice.

But no one has seen a five-fold increase in income.

No one’s income is known to have increased thirty-five-fold over twenty-five years.

If income hasn’t increased in proportion to the rupee’s devaluation, that should be understood as income having actually decreased.

Taking price rise and rupee devaluation into account, the Indian’s income has sharply fallen.

Having more rupees — like chaff mixed with grain — doesn’t mean much.

Setting aside the job security of government employees, in quality and effect, this chaff-like rupee amount serves no real purpose.

If a family could once live on just three hundred rupees a month, today even thirty thousand won’t be enough.

That means a hundred times more income is needed.

In other words, even a thousand rupees today doesn’t match what ten rupees once was.

It means India has nearly reached a state where you’d need a sackful of money to buy a pocketful of goods.

This is only comparing the old and new Indian rupee against itself.

What does it really mean when the Indian rupee collapses domestically, when it loses its value?

It means the wealth you kept in Indian rupees has vanished.

It means the country has robbed you, drained you, without you even realizing it.