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  Hartal
Paul Hartal is an internationally known painter and leading theorist concerned with cultural transformation and human survival.
Hartal has exhibited his paintings at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris and at the University of Lausanne, as well as in galleries in Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan, Spain, and the United States.
In the spring of 1975 PAUL HARTAL published in Montreal the first Manifesto in Lyrical Conceptualism.
www.arteutile.net /Hartal/Hartal.htm   (601 words)

  
  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
A hartal was a weapon in the armoury of the non-violence movement enunciated by the Father of the Nation during the independence struggle.
Hartal was in fact a device to measure the support of the people towards the specific issue highlighted by any political party or organisation and it is a device to inform and educate the public regarding specific problems affecting them.
It may be noted that hartal is not intended to be a weapon to be resorted to every other day for showing protest but is a weapon that must be rarely used on the occasion of national calamity or issues relating to the safety of the country or the prevention of democracy.
www.keral.com /Hcourt/fulltext/hartal.htm   (8896 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 261   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The hartals on 14th and 16th were called as some political workers were beaten up by the police, whereas three people are killed on an average every day around the country by terrorists.
Hartal is a cancer on society and the economy.
Apparently it may seem that enforcing hartal is the right of the opposition to express their dissatisfaction over some issues with the government.
www.thedailystar.net /2004/02/20/d40220110172.htm   (2126 words)

  
 Ethics of Hartal
Since the interest of the colonial rulers and the people of he colonies were diametrically opposite, hartals were inevitably used as a major instrument to demonstrate the united action of the people in protesting against the arbitrary action and undemocratic rule of the colonial powers.
Hartals in the colonial days were also to make the rulers realize that they cannot continue to rule the country denying the people their aspirations for democratic rights.
Hartals should not be in such cases be observed in such a manner that national interest is severely damaged and the life and the property of the people (or of state) are at stake.
www.cyberbangladesh.org /ethics.html   (1052 words)

  
 THE 1953 HARTAL: LESSONS FOR TODAY
The Hartal was the manifestation of one aspect of a broader social crisis faced by Sri Lanka in the immediate aftermath of Independence.
This is necessary to absorb demobilized militants and soldiers in income-generating activity and to raise optimism all round in the long-term viability of cooperative coexistence.
While commemorating the half-century anniversary of the Hartal, it is worth pondering whether we have the capacity and the courage to face up to the political challenges of the present.
www.lines-magazine.org /textaugust03/Rodrigo.htm   (3713 words)

  
 Online edition of Daily News - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
'Hartal' is an effective political tool if handled by efficient Leaders awakening the governments to address the genuine grievances of the people.
Hartal of the Year 1953 was of great significance because it was the first people's struggle against a government elected by the people of this country, he said.
The organisers of 1953 Hartal did not encourage the participation of the employees of Health Sector knowing that it could affect the innocent patients, he said.
www.dailynews.lk /2003/08/20/new25.html   (816 words)

  
 What does "hartal" mean?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Kashmir on 27 March 2002: During a hartal to demand the release of nonviolent activist Yasin Malek, all the shops are shut and the streets of the major cities are deserted.
The hartal is a nonviolent method used in political conflict and participation is voluntary.
We regard hartal as a nonviolent/"truth-forceful" way of tackling the economic causes of war, destruction of the environment and injustice.
www.hartal.org /Hartaleng.htm   (250 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hartal, a Hungarian-born artist and writer, always wondered who those bombers were — whether they were British or American, or even Russian — what happened in the skies during the attack and what became of the pilots.
As Hartal wrote, it was a “place transformed into a hellish nightmare,” with fires blazing, tracks twisted, and the dead and wounded all around, both inmates and German soldiers.
Hartal participated in the 1956 uprising with the anti-communist forces and subsequently fled to Israel.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=3888   (939 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hartal’s oil, titled simply Château, is a 30 by 36-inch patchwork of ochres, purples, roses and blue-greys, inset with fls that signify the building’s turret, wintry trees, an old-fashioned lamp standard and puzzle pieces of tarmac.
Hartal also enjoys painting from classical music what he believes is its visual analogue.
In 1988, Hartal was asked to design the basketball postcard for the Seoul Olympics and he exhibited in Korea in 1998 and again in 2004.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=5808   (773 words)

  
 Bangladesh News @ http://www.bhuiyan.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
On the one hand, the opposition parties before and now are causing negative effect on the economy by calling hartal and, on the other, the ruling parties before and now do not give much of the chance to the opposition to contribute to the public debate and to formulation of new legislation.
The UNDP representative said the study tried to give a message that demonstrations are fine, dissension is very important, but not at the expense of economy, not at the expense of free movement and not at the expense of people's security.
Asked about the study on hartal, the UN executive said the project "Beyond Hartals: Towards Democratic Dialogue in Bangladesh" was undertaken two years ago with the joint funding of the Netherlands and UNDP.
www.bhuiyan.com /news/itemNewsemail.asp?id=20050309n0001   (673 words)

  
 The Hindu : Candidates urged to clarify stand on hartal
Vijaya Raghavan said that the time had come for the electorate of the State to use the power of the ballot to isolate those who support hartals, bandhs and general strikes as a method of protest.
Vijaya Raghavan contended that most of the BPO services like call centres operate for 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 52 weeks a year and are hyper sensitive to work disruption, be it hartal, bandh, strike or work to rule.
But this would be possible only if the State was free from work disruption such as hartal and bandhs.
www.hindu.com /2004/04/01/stories/2004040105490400.htm   (601 words)

  
 -- Beliefnet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hartal, a Hasidic Jew from Montreal, is a stocky and mild-mannered 38-year-old, with a kind face and a dark beard.
Hartal's seriousness comes in part from the fact that he doesn't consider himself pure entertainment.
Hartal and I are sitting in a coffeehouse on Boulevard St. Laurent in Montreal the day before the film's Canadian premiere.
www.belief.net /story/107/story_10778_1.html   (454 words)

  
 HARTHAL
Hartal signifies closing of offices and shops in India as a mark of public protest or sorrow.
After the British conceded independence to India on 15th August 1947, Hartals in free India were often observed mostly as a mark of public sorrow to mourn the demise of public men and great leaders.
Bandhs, Hartals, Strike or whatever else are part of collective exercise of such freedom guaranteed under the Constitution.
www.harthal.com /php/showContent.php?linkid=1   (1186 words)

  
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In the present day context, hartal is no more an effective tool for achieving demands or launching movement in national and international perspectives, he pointed out.
According to research reports published in the national dailies, hartal was observed on 1235 days in 33 years after the independence of the country that caused a financial loss of over Taka 25,000 crore.
On the eve of the hartal called by Awami League on June 3 this year, 10 innocent passengers were roasted alive when a double-decker BRTC bus was set on fire while many others, including women, men and children were critically injured.
www.bangladeshjournal.com /newsadmin/printable.php?ID=1540   (446 words)

  
 Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
As an anti-government demonstration, the Hartal was led by the LSSP.
More than a mere general strike, the Hartal of August 12, 1953, was aimed at opposing radically, the government that was in power since 1952.
He hints that confining the Hartal to a one day affair was contrary to the feeling of the protesting masses who would to see the government dislodged.
www.sundayobserver.lk /2003/01/26/fea13.html   (704 words)

  
 Gulfnews: Hartal total in Kannur
The dawn-to-dusk hartal (general strike) called by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kannur yesterday, following Thursday's violence in which two persons, including a BJP sympathiser was killed, passed off without any major incident.
The hartal call was made following the death of two persons when a bomb was hurled at a jeep carrying BJP workers returning after the funeral of a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activist who was killed the previous day.
During the hartal, a newspaper van belonging to Madhyamam was burnt down.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=52239   (172 words)

  
 Paul Hartal
Paul Hartal's painting consists of bright, expressionistic canvases, often combined with photography or other technological processes, as part of the attempt to unite the scientific with the creative, or intuitive.
Hartal refuses to polarize science and art, but involves the use of technology by the artist in the creation of beauty, resulting in works that seek to unify science and art, emotion and logic, intelligence and soul.
Hartal returned to Hungary in 1983, and his art and writings have been frequently discussed by the Hungarian media.
art-history.concordia.ca /eea/artists/hartal.html   (545 words)

  
 Programming Challenges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
For our purposes, each party may be characterized by a positive integer h called the hartal parameter that denotes the average number of days between two successive strikes called by the given party.
There will be exactly five hartals (on days 3, 4, 8, 9, and 12) over the 14 days.
Given the hartal parameters for several political parties and the value of N, determine the number of working days lost in those N days.
www.programming-challenges.com /pg.php?page=downloadproblem&probid=110203&format=html   (270 words)

  
 HARTHAL
Stating that non-resident Keralites were strongly opposed to frequent hartals, he said the government should take effective measures to prevent such agitations that posed an impediment to the state's overall development.
Pointing out that Kerala witnessed two state wide hartals in a gap of eight days this month; he said political parties should make sure that a hartal was organized on the rarest of the rare occasion.
Since certain political parties were strongly opposed to bringing in some restrictions on hartals, he took the initiative to build a mass movement against it, he said, adding that Chief Minister Oommen Chandy should convene a meeting of political parties to discuss the issue.
www.harthal.com /php/showContent.php?linkid=6   (402 words)

  
 The Hindu : Kerala / Kochi News : Hartal evokes poor response
The 12-hour hartal called by the Shiv Sena in Ernakulam district on Friday in protest against the District Collector banning the holding of the Elavoor `thookkam' evoked only partial response in the city and its suburbs.
The police attributed the attack on the private buses that were parked in the area to a rivalry between two groups of bus workers.
The city police had beefed up security in view of the hartal and policemen were posted at some of the key areas in the city.
www.hindu.com /2004/04/24/stories/2004042412600300.htm   (413 words)

  
 Hartal
It continues in the form of the continuation of the hartal and strike committee, to compel the capitalist UNP Government to resign and hold a general election.
That was why the Mercantile Union, while voting against a strike, voted unanimously in its General Council to join the protest hartal in the different form of wearing a fl tie and walking to work; that is to say they would refuse to use transport and so become a demonstration in a certain fashion.
At the same time as the struggle for the strike went forward in the factories, the left parties in general, and the LSSP in particular, were covering the country with a network of meetings.
www.revolutionary-history.co.uk /backiss/Vol2/No1/Hartal.html   (7184 words)

  
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Now no one knows what they have to say.
Under the circumstances, NRI's from this part of Kerala wish all success to IUML's Hartal, even though Hartals are very disruptive.
Please also raise your point in our forum - 'A Flight of Chaos', so that we are together in fight.
www.calicutnet.com   (260 words)

  
 1000 hartals enforced in 33 years :: Bangla2000 Backup Bulletin Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Over 1,000 hartals were enforced in last 33 years across the country incurring a loss of more than Tk 70,000 crore, said the leaders of a social organisation at a human chain yesterday.
Hartal and strike also hamper the economic growth of the country and create price hike of essentials, he added.
Hartal and strike give us only sufferings and obstruct the practice of democracy, said Motiur Rahman Moti, joint convenor of the organisation.
www.bangla2000.com /bbs/bulletins.pl?b=nat,m=1099461516   (419 words)

  
 The Hindu : Hartal turns violent in Kollam district
A counter hartal is being observed in the Ramankulangara area in the city and at Anchal by private bus operators in protest against the alleged violence unleashed by hartal supporters in those areas.
Though the hartal supporters had announced that they would spare Sabarimala pilgrims, in at least two incidents at Sooranad, the pilgrims were attacked and their vehicles damaged.
At Ramankulangara, bike-borne hartal supporters speeding from the opposite direction flung a huge stone into a car which crashed through the windscreen and critically injured the person at the wheel, identified as Ravimony.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2001/12/07/stories/2001120701880300.htm   (516 words)

  
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Hartal is always a blow to Yunus, a teenager who subsists by selling tea in Bangabazar and the adjacent markets in the city.
Hartal hurts almost everyone, not only tea-boys like Yunus whose modest take helps to support the whole family.
More than 90 per cent of around 2 lakh shops in the city remain closed on hartal day and their losses account for a good part of the estimated Tk 300 crore loss due to this corrosive political programme, said Amir Hossain Khan, president of the Bangladesh Shop-owners’ Association.
www.bangladesh-web.com /news/view.php?hidDate=2005-11-24&hidType=ICT&hidRecord=000000000000000007275   (474 words)

  
 .:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
KHULNA, Aug 31:–The countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal called by Mohila Awami League and Awami Jubo League in protest against the attempt on the life of Awami League Chief and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Sheikh Hasina, killing of Begum Ivy Rahman was observed in Khulna peacefully with no untoward incident.
Our Sylhet Correspondent reports: The hartal called by Mahila Awami League and Awami Juba League (AJL) and supported by 11-party alliance was observed here in Sylhet All shops, markets, financial establishments and educational institutions remained close while all vehicular traffic went off the roads during the hartal hours.
JSD-Inu, CPB and 11-party jointly called a day-long hartal which was observed were peacefully on Monday six upazilas of the district.
www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2004/09/02/district.htm   (1776 words)

  
 Article By Pankaj Oudhia
If its give fumes during burning, then it is impure or false Hartal and by using this impure Hartal, one can kill their patients.
Basically Hartal is used in treatment of blood impurities, disease of mouth, and respiratory systems.
In another method, the specific amount of Hartal is kept inside the fruit of Indrayan (Citrullus colocynthis) and allowed to dry.
www.botanical.com /site/column_poudhia/219_hartal.html   (709 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 327   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal called by the main opposition Awami League (AL) disrupted life for the second consecutive day yesterday and sporadic violence marked the shutdown in the capital.
The second round of hartal, called to press the AL demands for resignation of the BNP-led coalition government by today and snap polls, ended almost peacefully elsewhere in the country.
Picketing for hartal was not seen in most areas as police took a tough line on pickets and opposition leaders and activists.
www.thedailystar.net /2004/04/30/d4043001088.htm   (440 words)

  
 Amardesh@e-mela.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hartal is going on, as if there is no harm in it and people are enjoying it.
Calling hartal and waiting for the dead body for another hartal or demonstration and this is not solution.
Hartal is a deadly tradition that is only being practice by the Bengali nation that is so called devotion to nothing.
www.e-mela.com /amardesh/amardesh_hartal.html   (3565 words)

  
 Politics News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Addressing the rally as chief guest Dhaka City mayor and city BNP president Sadek Hossain Khoka said the AL was enforcing hartals one after another to destabilise the country, though when they were in power, their party chief and the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had pledged not to go for hartals in future.
Referring to the incident at Jatrabari during the hartal hours of Monday, the Awami League chief blamed that the goons of the BNP blindfolded two women leaders of her party, tied them with ropes, and tortured them in public for taking part in pro-hartal pickets in their locality.
BCL, the student wing of Awami League, called the hartal in the district in protest against attack on its rally allegedly by JCD men during hartal hours Monday that left 10 of their activists injured.
independent-bangladesh.com /news/feb/16/16022005pl.htm   (1700 words)

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