{"id":8232,"date":"2013-02-21T16:55:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T11:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=8232"},"modified":"2013-02-21T16:55:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T11:25:29","slug":"does-hunger-have-harthals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/does-hunger-have-harthals\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Hunger have Harthals?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haven\u2019t you got at least one message wishing a \u201cHappy Hartha<\/strong>l\u201d today? I did. The element of sarcasm in it has become so stale that it stinks! True- such strikes and shut downs have become a habit for us that we treat it like any other holiday.<\/p>\n

For the organisers and supporters, it is the time to take pride in realising how \u2018powerful\u2019 they are in adding a \u2018pause button\u2019 to public life. For those who oppose, it is the time to challenge such atrocities and plan ahead for one soon. For kids, and those of us who keep the inner child alive, the 48-hour strike translates to two full days away from school or work! For the breadwinner of a family who depends solely on his daily wages, such \u2018holidays\u2019 become big question marks.<\/p>\n

But there is yet another category of people about whom we never seem to bother. Yes, they are those whom we consider a nuisance- they \u2018spoil our day\u2019 by appearing in our door step, in foot paths, any nook and corner, with open palms and pathetic looks, always grumbling about hunger!<\/p>\n

They do not have even the solace of a daily wage. They thrive on mercy. I wonder, what will they be doing on a harthal day like this? Even if they can manage to get some money, where will they get a morsel to kill their hunger?<\/p>\n

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A firm serving food to patients and their bystanders of Govt. Women & Children Hospital at Thycaud in Trivandrum. (Pic Courtesy: Anil Philip)<\/p><\/div>\n

Thanks to religious institutions and social welfare groups, many of them get at least a sure meal every day. Will the harthal affect it?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Haven\u2019t you got at least one message wishing a \u201cHappy Harthal\u201d today? I did. The element of sarcasm in it has become so stale that it stinks! True- such strikes and shut downs have become a habit for us that we treat it like any other holiday. For the organisers and supporters, it is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-8232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}