What a 'harthal' is ??

Forget about your age, sex, religion and party, just sit and think from a layman’s point of view. Did you ever think what these so called ‘Harthals’ have given to the people of Kerala?? 

Of course there are agendas, allegations and conspiracies in each political party,whatever the party is. But is this meant to destroy a social life? 

Whether Saritha or Kavitha got imprisonment or not, whether Umman Chandi got pelted with stone or not, whether he would resign or not, we, as the citizen of India have gotten the freedom of life since 1947, August 15.

Take a normal day of a common man, we have 12 whole hours to work. But think, how would our life change if there are no public vehicles or other necessary services? We will be forced to cancel our programs for a whole day. No matter how serious it is.  From their point of view, every Harthal is meant to get the justice. But, what justice the common people are getting? Don’t they have the freedom of life? Don't they have the right to live?

The poor suffer a lot on a hartal day.Kerala is a state where a major share of people move their life with the daily wages they are getting. But they will seriously suffer if there is no work for a day. In the case of rickshaw-pullers,hawkers etc too.Patients can not go to hospital, Markets are closed, highways become desolated.Sometimes they clash with the police.How many innocent people are getting injured? In commercial field also, if there is no movement for a whole day, it will surely bring down our productivity..It damages our economy. High Court itself yesterday made a statement against 'Harthal' and its consequences to the state and the people. 

One whole day is losing from our life without any reason.

IN A NUTSHELL, ‘IT IS NOTHING BUT AN UTTER NONSENSE’.

I know nothing is going to happen with this single post. But, we, the youngsters won’t do anything, nobody else can. We are lucky enough to have some strong social networking sites to open up our own mouth.

If you want to rest for a day, take it as a holiday. Or, at least feel free to respond against this unwanted propaganda!!! We have to.

                                                    RESPOND GUYS!!

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It's not religious, but individualistic ..!!

       यत्र नार्यस्तु पूज्यन्ते रमन्ते तत्र देवताः ।
यत्रैतास्तु न पूज्यन्ते सर्वास्तत्राफलाः क्रियाः ॥

  (The Goddesses are extremely happy where women are respected, Where they are not, all actions are fruitless.). This was our tradition.

While I was roaming through the net last day, my eyes caught on a campaign ( Abused Goddesses) by an ‘Anti-sex trafficking NGO’ named ‘Save Our Sisters’. 

They came up with images that depict Hindu goddesses Lakshmi, Saraswati and Durga as Victims of abuse. Goddesses are portrayed in the same attire in which we usually see them in the pictures but with swellings on their faces, the signs of abuse. The campaign simply and effectively captures India’s dangerous discrepancy.

In a country like India, it is an effective way to picture the situation. Because India is a country where we worship women as goddesses and yet brutalize them in the darkness and kill girls in the womb. That means not even embryos are safe today.

Of course this particular campaign raises awareness. I too was pleased with these ads when I first saw them.  But I think the problem is not religious. 
I don’t think that the typical Hindu men who recites 'Durga Chalisa' everyday would not beat their wives even if they beat them back. This is same in the case of every religion. Most of the rape cases are reporting from slum areas and from the people living in the streets. Do they have any religion? They don’t even know the meaning of the goddess.

This does not mean that, the men in India will stop abusing women from tomorrow, because they are Goddesses or because they love their religion. So, Whatever anyone’s personal spiritual beliefs may be, some values wouldn’t be taught.

The women abused in the history of India are not from a particular religion. So, Even if she is a Hindu, Christian or Muslim, what she needs today is not worship, but humanity.

Even if it is Saraswati, Durga or Mother Mary, or any other spiritual figures that we worship, Respect should come from within one’s mind.

   ‘RESPECT WOMEN NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE GODDESSES, BUT    BECAUSE THEY ARE WOMEN’.


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