The bandh that was not.

Whoever claimed that the bandh was successful was lying.

Because….

70% of India that lives in its villages was unaffected. Life in most Indian villages went on as usual. There was no improvement in their lives.

In the city, where 30% of the remaining India resides, this was the scene:

Women, who are at least half of the adult population, did not stop working. In fact, they worked overtime, preparing tea, snacks and nibbles for their spouses and his cronies.

Senior citizens did what they do every other day; women pretended chit chatting in their verandahs while spying over the illicit lovebirds in their locality and men watched Fashion TV as the Kamwali Bai was on leave.

The working class did not stop working. They worked from home on Facebook. Some men even took a break from Facebook and watered their neighbor’s plants.  

Infants still shat in their diapers and danced to Psy.

Kids, as usual played on the streets.

Telemarketers still harassed people with their strange offers, one of which included giving away free suitcases with every Credit Card for the spouse.

News media kept bombarding the Cell Phones with irrelevant news updates.

Single people who were career oriented, made good use of their time viewing webinars on www.viewmynaughtywebcam.com. Some even performed for unknown friends far away.

The shop with the red light was bustling with activity the whole night, so much, that the CVM outside ran out of stock and customers were asked to make their own arrangements.

The police slept.

In short, no one stopped working. No one!

Apparently, the only people who suffered were the College going teenagers. They had no class to bunk!