Multiplying Modi goof

IN Media Watch Briefs | 26/08/2013

Narendra Modi's speech writers pick up a wrong fact from a Wikipedia article, he makes a speech saying the rupee was equal to the dollar in 1947, and the media can't seem to stop repeating his error. On August 25 it was the turn of the Hindustan Times to carry a huge splash on the falling rupee tracing it from this erroneous figure. The Indian Express had reported it before that. As had others.

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