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Not right

The nationwide strike called by central trade unions on Thursday against the economic and anti-labour policies of the United Progressive Alliance Government is not right. The only result is that the common man has been inconvenienced. Are such occasional strikes necessary?

Air Cmde (retd.) Raghubir Singh,
Pune

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A lot has been written about the effects of bandhs, dharnas, strikes but we still have not learnt any lessons. How can anyone act in a way that harms the nation and the people and still call himself a patriot or a fighter for a noble cause?

Ganapathi S. Lakshminarayanan,
Woodbridge, New Jersey

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