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HARTAL, BANDH- WHO IS THE LOSER AND WHO GAINS????????????????

                      ( An image of a deserted main road in a town during a hartal) Dear friends,  I am back again after a long time.. A lot of things had happened since my last posting. The naxal attacks has increased in ruthlessness and naxals has become the greatest security threat to India. The left has been beaten out of Bengal and they are on the verge of the same fate in Kerala. But what concerns me most and has prompted me to write this blog is the frequency of hartals and bandhs that is taking place in India especially in Kerala. HARTAL (REFER WIKIPEDIA) Hartal is a form of civil disobedience movement. The word has it's origin in Gujarathi which was imbibed by the great Mahatma as an effective tool of civil and mass disobedience movement and an effective protest. BANDHS (REFER WIKIPEDIA) Bandhs in hindi means closed. It is perhaps the most feared form of protest where in a political party call for protest and it is expected that the public will comply, in mos