Though industry watchers and businessmen might label hartals as anti-productive, the startling fact is that the majority of Keralites, comprising of the salaried class and students look forward to hartals eagerly.
This incident that took place on the latest hartal day in the cultural capital of Kerala, Trichur drives home this point with élan. Normally, most of the shops and markets in Kerala close by 8 Pm or even early. However on the day preceding the hartal day, the streets were crammed with avid shoppers who were out to finish the last minute shopping to make the hartal day a memorable holiday.
Long queues were seen in front of liquor and meat shops. Bakeries, provision stores and vegetable shops too witnessed record crowd that resembled the Onam festivities, which is only an arm’s length away. People were not leaving anything to chance and were hoarding all the ingredients to whip up a joyous day.
The local folks make the maximum use of this unscheduled holiday to visit friends and relatives too. Hartals undeniably mean lots of lip smacking cuisine, a relaxing sleep and tons of music and movies to the ordinary malayalees.
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