Then other states are mostly doing fine. The problem here is issues that people faced in the past are coming to light through the media post demonetization. For example, the quality of life in India overall was worse the last two years than it is today even with the demonetization blues because of the drought. The only difference is hungry people standing in lines wasn't something the media bothered about before demonetization, now they are.
Privileged part of India suddenly woke up to the plight of the poor overnight.
You are probably right on the last point, the privileged finding out about the poor overnight. None of them had any idea about this. Those of us engaged with skill development as an alternative to management training and engineering training were already aware of this; sensitive India, as distinct from privileged India, has been aware of this situation for some time now.
I can't agree with your statement about hungry people standing in lines. Hungry people looked for MNREGA funds, they never stood in line at banks. It is not clear why you think they did. There were never such ridiculous queues before this recent debacle.
As for the drought being responsible for the quality of life deteriorating in India, that is very true. It is unfortunate that this is remembered only in order to contradict those who think that the quality of life deteriorated in the last few weeks. This problem existed, as you point out, for the last two years; it is sad that instead of concentrating on the plight of the poor, and those suffering due to drought, our Don Quixote and Sancho Panza combination decided that corruption and black money was a greater demon.
If this recent idiocy has brought the media to talk about the misery of the poor, and especially the rural poor, that is not a bad thing, surely. Better than talking fatuous nonsense about Shining India, and better than taking pride in GDP growth, without considering what real impact that had on the bulk of India's population.
I don't know in what sense 'other states' are doing fine. I don't know why Bengal came up in your comment in the first place. But no doubt there was some agenda behind it. No doubt, in the fullness of time, we will be informed what it is.