It was like any other day.. I got up early, and started getting ready for college, when it suddenly dawned on me that it was a holiday. No it wasn't a Sunday, but a "Bandh day"....No buses, minibuses, autorickshaws or taxis, no means of transport plying on the roads.. So no means to defy the bandh either.
As is the case today,most of the times i don't even realise the reason why they've called the strike.. I mean if some atrocity has actually happened, why incovenience innocent people who have no hand in the trouble caused?
O.... I forgot.. people do not matter do they?
Things sometimes need to be sacrificed.. and if strikes were "sometimes" called, it's understandable.. but how is a bandh called at the drop of a hat going to fo
rward your cause?
I remember an ad which used to be broadcast on the radio a few years back.. an ad for a biscuit company.. There they would announce a bandh because the company was offering 33% extra biscuits in the pack !!!!
Some people have made it a habit of announcing strikes on the slightest of pretexts and the ad captures this very essence..
And another major hindrance is the public apathy towards these strikes....They consider it an extra holiday.. I guess the people are in dire need of holidays.. but if people start supporting these strikes indirectly, when will they ever stop?
But why would people want the bandh culture to end when they get benefited from it? On the one hand they'll keep harping about no development in the city..and on the other, encourage such lawlessness....
Was getting bored at home....so wrote all this up in the midst of chattin with some friends.... i hope i wasn't too busy that i wrote something incoherent !!
