Strike spawns weekend.

(From The Statesman (India))

Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Sept. 29. - As is usual when the Left is left in charge of announcing the date of mass protests, today's strike was the first of a five-day vacation for those who like to take it easy and skip work whenever the opportunity of a long weekend presents itself. Here's the sequence: strike, bank holiday, weekend and Mahalaya. And in the bargain, the 'loss' of one holiday (Gandhi Jayanti on Sunday) was made up as well! But Left patriarchs always have the answer. Asked whether today's strike, coming so close to Puja holidays would send the right signal to industrialists, CPI(M) state secretary, Mr Anil Biswas …