In a passionate defence of Narendra Modi’s controversial demonetisation policy in the Times of India on Tuesday, New York-based economist Jagdish Bhagwati offered a curious argument to prove the popularity of the decision: it has widespread support, he concluded, because there has been no “rioting, looting or acts of mass protest” against it.

To be sure, the calm resignation with which Indians have queued up for hours to get their money out of the banks has perplexed many observers. Even the Opposition parties were unable to get their act together and the nation-wide shutdown they attempt to organise on November 28 was a damp squib.

But the pain has been visible everywhere. The winter sowing has been disrupted, weddings have been derailed and small-scale retail and industry has seen a severe slowing down.

Though demonstrations of frustration have been muted, there have been sporadic, unorganised protests in some places. The latest incident occurred on Tuesday in Punjab’s Sangrur district, when hundreds of brick kiln workers blocked a national highway. “The brick kilns are already facing losses for the last four years,” Harwinder Singh Sekhon, state president of All Brick Kilns Association, Punjab, told The Indian Express. “Now, there is no sale of bricks but we need to pay the labour as 200-250 employees are working at every brick kiln.”

Here are four other demonstrations that failed to catch Bhagwati’s attention.

1. Violence has been a constant feature of demonetisation in Uttar Pradesh

On November 19, a group of citizens in Saharanpur blocked the Delhi-Yamunotri highway in Behat town after a bank manager refused to dispense Rs 2.5 lakh each to customers who had arrived carrying wedding cards of their children even as in Thanabhavan town, customers locked the staff of Union Bank of India inside the branch after cash ran out. On November 20, citizens of Meerut and Muzaffarnagar vandalised bank branches angry that they had run out of cash. On December 5, angry customer in Chilkana town pelted stones at the State Bank of India branch after a “no cash” board was put up.

This widespread distress prompted the Uttar Pradesh state government to announce compensation for the family of those who died under the impact of the demonetisation move after November 8, including for those who died standing in queues at banks and ATMs.

2. In Gujarat, farmers threw their produce on the road as part of a mass protest

On November 19, Gujarati farmers dumped grain and poured milk on the streets at rallies in Surat and Anand to protest demonetisation and the restrictions imposed on district central co-operative banks on exchange and deposits. In Surat, the number of protestors run into the thousands as farmers travelled through the city with truck-and tractor-loads of wheat, sugarcane and other agricultural produce to the office of District Collector.

3. In Manipur, a bank was vandalised for having no cash

Angry customers vandalised two State Bank of India branches in Manipur on November 28 after the bank refused to allow people to withdraw Rs 24,000 each from their accounts citing cash shortage. The government’s limit of Rs 24,000 per week on withdrawals is frequently ignored as banks struggle with a lack of cash. In Manipur, a confluence of blockades by political groups and demonetisation has left the local economy totally crippled.

4. In Maharashtra, farmers conducted a road blockade after vegetable prices crashed

In Karad near Pune, farmers angry at the crashing prices of vegetables staged a rasta roko on December 12. “Demonetisation has affected farmers badly,” the president of a farmers’ association told the Financial Express. “There is no cash in the market and traders are refusing to buy our goods. So, farmers have stopped bringing vegetables to the market. The government is responsible for this situation and should compensate the farmers for their losses.”