Benny Hinn Shuts Down Bangalore?

Sometimes, I pick up breakfast from the store near my house. Went there this morning, the store's closed. I realise that it's Bakrid, so maybe the store owners, who are Muslim, have closed the shop. I try the store down the street. It's closed too. I realise later that there wasn't too much traffic. Are we the only company that's working today?

The bakery near the office is closed too. Roads are again a little deserted. Is there a bandh today in Bangalore? I didn't read anything about it in the newspaper. I ask a policeman. He said that there's a bandh to protest the Benny Hinn show, er, prayer meeting, but that the government has not declared a bandh.

The security guy at my office tells me that people attacked buses yesterday. Yes, deface public property to make your point--that's a sign of maturity.

What I did read in the Times of India was a nice ad by a social activist. He made a simple point--No individual could come and shake the pillars of Hinduism, nobody is that powerful. Exactly right. That's the point I was trying to make when I wrote this the other day.

I don't want to get started on bandhs too, so I'll stop writing. Now, all I've got to do is get some breakfast.