[Assam] Newspapers on holiday too?

[Ram Sarangapani]

Thank you Mukul da. I did forget that it was also the Durga Puja holidays
and Xongkordew's Birth anniversary.

It is strange, here the newspapers do not take off even on Christmas. Yes,
employees do get off, but there is always a skeleton crew that takes up the
slack, and these employees that work on the holidays either get another day
(of their choosing) off or maybe compensated by overtime or compensation
time.

IMHO, some institutions like utilities, medical services, fire and the media
cannot just take a day off. The employees could ofcourse work on rotation.

--Ram

On 10/2/06, mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  <It was only then I *realized* that *Oct 2 is Mahatma Gandhi's birth
> anniversary *and its a national holiday>
>
>  Ram - can I  observe that you Realized all wrong!
>
> It is Nawaami&Daxami of Durga Puja+ Xongkordew's Birthanniversary.
>
> Maybe Gandhi(which) Jayanti-Mational Holiday. Define Holiday !. Holy or
> Unholy or* Rest after Hardly work for Govt Employees.* I think Armed
> Forces /crp/police all enjoy this HOLY day.Of course these do nothing in
> life!
>
> mm
>
> ------------------------------
> From:  *"Ram Sarangapani" <assamrs at gmail.com>*
> To:  *ASSAMNET <assam at assamnet.org>*
> Subject:  *[Assam] Newspapers on holiday too?*
> Date:  *Mon, 2 Oct 2006 09:16:26 -0500*
>
> I was trying to get the 'latest' so tried to get the AT and the Sentinel
> online, and I was only getting yesterday's editions (Oct 1). It was only
> then I realized that Oct 2 is Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary and its a
> national holiday.
>
>  Well, thats good - so I thought maybe (at least) the TOI or HT may have
> Oct 2 editions, and sure enough they do. In fact, everyother newspaper worth
> its salt (in India) has Oct 2 editions.
>  So, what is the deal here?
>
>  Are the newspapers (and generally other offices) in Assam more patriotic
> than those Dilli or UP wallas that even the media will take a day off
> (wonder about hospitals and the fire services) or is it just that this just
> another 'bandh day'? Who knows? All one can say is that in this technique of
> taking off at the drop of a hat, Assam takes the cake.
>
>  --Ram
>
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