Demonitisation has not only generated in deaths of hundreds of people
directly and many indirectly, It has also created deep conflicts within
families, among friends, within trade, within associations and groups and
between relationships in general. According to Marx, one of the main
implications of capitalism is on its ability to transform human
relationships into commodity/money relationships as a fetish, when he wrote
about fetishism of commodities. This was what happened under demonitisation
in a nutshell. Suddenly, all over India, human relationships transformed
into commodity/money relationships. And that also when money suddenly
became a scarce commodity. Human beings became so insecure in this country
without the feel of touch of their fingers on currency notes. Those who did
not need that touch, who could replace that touch on their mobiles or
computers, became powerful overnight. The rest were doomed. It would be
interesting to study the broken relationships in India due to
demonitisation as well as the relationships of the human beings which
sustained despite the crisis. I do not have any reason to believe that the
reason for the relationships which sustained the crisis is due to the
collective faith that `demonitisation is for national welfare'. It would
also be interesting to study the fluctuations on the ratio of suicides in
every state during the period of demonitisation, to get a more
comprehensive picture on the psychological impact of demonitisation on the
Indian people.
K.P. Sasi

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