A Strike Day
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Strike day is a regular day, peculiar because it is unlike any other normal day
of the year. Normally, we have some routine work to do every day. Some, for
example, have office; some have their business and so on. In a word, the
necessity of the day drives people onward their regular way. But what happens
to them on a strike day? Unexpected! People who live from hand to mouth are
disappointed, not knowing what to do, what to eat, how to deed the family.
Those, on the other hand, who do good jobs at government or multinational
companies, enjoy an unauthorized leave at home. Some high officials, of course,
have to bear the hardship of rushing to office very early in the morning, as
they have to go on foot at the at the risk of their prestige, sometimes their
lives. To look at the streets, we see a peculiar scenario. Almost at every
public square and highway, supporters of the strike gang up and create
barricades, impeding the movements of vehicles. Often bangs of cocktails
bursting heard around. On some streets, finding them bare, children play
cricket, football, and games. Markets and shops are closed. To some people, the
day becomes a suffocating one. Some people, however, for relevant reasons,
remember such day as though it were a memorable day in their lives!
