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Bharat Band - Jai ho

So we had a Bharat band. The band word itself sounds strange, considering that it means that everything stops. And it's so strange that the word which was used by our freedom fighters is used for a purpose which the people doing it do not even understand. This is not about a particular political party. It is a general phenomena, which repeats itself in the same way and the actors are people in power and people want to be in power.

So in the band, what we closed? We closed schools so the children could not study. We closed the shops and business so that people can not do day to day chorus. Who knows this might just stop us from achieving double digit growth. :-) We stopped buses and trains so that people cannot reach to their destinations. The sick could not reach to Doctors. Wow, what an achievement.

And what was not closed, in spite of bandh. Corruption still went as it was yesterday. In fact got a full day to do deals. The rogues elements got their chance to destroy the public and private property. The small time politicians and big time also could show that how much they are important. Unfortunately their importance is reflected by stopping and destroying and not by creating and generating.

Each band is camouflaged behind a noble cause. Sometimes it is against fuel price hike and sometimes it's against some other issues. But all the times, a commonality is that the political parties resort to such act when they are going through identity crisis. It is more of a Page 3 politics.

If one is really concerned about the issues, than come up with alternatives to resolve those issues. I am sure, the people sitting in political parties are of very high caliber. There is never any doubt about that. But cannot they thing of better ways to solve the problem, rather than harassing the common man.

If still one thinks, band is a good idea than please for a moment think about that chaiwala or the construction labour, whose daily dinner depends on Bharat running as usual. It may not impact you, but it impacts most of the people and in a very bad way.

Why not have a Bharat khula, always and everytime and than find the solutions in that context.

Jai Ho !!!


Hi,

What alternative way of protesting do you suggest?

I think Gamdhiji's genius was displayed more in the methods of protest he devised. Look at the salt satyagraha. He did not close India down, though he easily could have. Instead he defied the Raj by DOING something that was good but was proscribed unjustly by the government.

Similar ways must be devised. I suggest something like not paying the unjust cess which is causing the petrol price rise. Or getting everybody to ride cycles for an entire month. We can then see how the petrol pumps react !!!

Anyway, these are my suggestions. I am not exactly a genius like Gandhiji. Anybody with better ideas??


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