Bandh- Stop That!
Ravia Gupta Early to bed, early to rise, is what my mom insisted upon and I, too, like an obedient child, happily added this in my lifestyle. At around 5:30 am just when my alarm started to ring, I started to fight with the first devil attack of the day. To get up in the morning is not an easy one! Get up, get going or to take it easy and continue to dream for some more time is the challenge. And guess what? I won yet again to get up and get going…get going for a morning walk first, a shortcut to a healthy breakfast meal, making my way through the narrow lanes of a small town, chaotic traffic, just wishing for a few more minutes to be at my side and finally making it on time for work at dot 9:30 am. An empty parking lot with just a few men around, kept me thinking if I was too early or I was out to work on a public holiday. Within no time I got to know it was neither of the two. It was a ‘bandh’, meaning ‘closed, a general or a routine strike in our case. Now, this one surely is a