I do not have much appreciation for the institution of marriages, leave alone the marriage industry. But at the same time I respect the emotions of those within such institutions. It is like religion. As an atheist, I do not have much to do with religion. But I do respect the emotions of people who have emotional attachment with any religion. The institution of marriage is also similar. Many may wonder why human emotions should be institutionalised. At the same time, a lot of human emotions are encompassed by such institutions. Hence, if a demonitisation programme which happened in the thick of marriage season in India breaks marriages, it is important to express compassion to the broken marriages. Does anybody have any clue about the number of broken marriages due to demonitisation? Except for some reported incidents reported by the press? When will people recognise that Modi’s hand has reached their homes, shaking up their emotions? Modi’s hand does not shock me. Lack of timely opposition does.
On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 5:18 PM, KP Sasi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
