Citizens protest in New Delhi soon after the demonetisation announcement. Pic/PTI

There is a glorious misconception amongst those who have no inkling of how democracy works that if something is popular, it cannot be criticised. It was popularly believed a few centuries ago that the Earth was flat, that the Sun revolved around the Earth and so on. People who questioned these assumptions, with scientific research and explanations, were persecuted and killed. However, those were not democratic times.