Did you get mail?
Did you get mail? Somewhere into a netbanking session, the black mouse sliding under my right hand perhaps came to life, deciding to upgrade my information on current affairs and I found myself staring at several videos and photos of postal staff strike on the screen. They make a total of five lakh i.e. half a million employees in our country and I did not know they had gone on strike. Half a million men and women going off work! Their protest was against corporatisation of India Post or Bharatiya Dak , I read. Photo: The Hindu Every government brings in new policies which it believes would pick up the nation from where it is lying in a slumber and put it on the top of the world in terms of development so they can soak in the accolades and take the bow for this performance. Anyway, talks were held, as is usual in such cases, between the officials and the leaders of the postal workers’ union. As a result, one section of employees deferred the strike but the other went on ...