In praise of hartal
Hartal day creates a level playing field for everybody. The rich and the poor travel jostling with each other on the same kind of vehicle- rickshaws, Nasiman or Koriman.
The poor Nasiman drivers make a brisk business by plying their high sounding vehicles more frequently and freely in the absence of other modes of transport. But what is remarkable, they do not claim higher fair. Our poorer class is still ethically strong. It is the educated class who has lost their ethics.
The slower pace of hartal day give the retrospective mind a little more time to think on life and death. However vehemently the ruling party decry hartal, they inwardly love it because they know soon they will be in the opposition when hartal will be the only means to take down the recalcitrant ruling monster suffering from paranoia and amnesia. Some say there is no place of caretaker government system under democratic system. But I see no democracy here; rather it is demoncracy that rules the roost.
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