National Strike

It’s hard to believe that an entire country could organize a national strike, especially one the size of India… But that they did.  On July 5^th from 6am to 6pm the entire country shut down to protest rising prices, particularly of food and petrol.

It was a political move.  All the opposition parties put it on together against the ruling party… They got all shops to close, buses and rickshaws to stop running; the whole country was at a standstill.  And everyone was too afraid to do anything else.  People were saying if shops opened they might be stoned or vandalized in some way. It was pretty incredible to see, the city was in slow motion for the first and only time I was there.

The sad thing is that nothing will come of it; it was purely political. And millions of people lost out on a day of wages.