Help India’s informal sector thrive: it supports mass livelihoods and has its own institutions of trust
This is a fishy tale with a long tail. I visited Aurobindo, my usual fish vendor in Chittaranjan Park, New Delhi, two weeks ago to purchase my stock for the week. I left after paying the bill of ₹2,010 through my cellphone, or so I thought, marvelling at the convenience of India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), one of the most advanced public digital infrastructure systems in the world.
