He had to virtually pull down the shutters to escape from the hooligans setting fire to his small cloth shop. Life since Aug. 1 in the City is not normal. There are no cinema houses open. The cable TV operators has closed down Tamil channels. Long distance buses were never let in or let out of Bangalore.
People are virtually under continuous fear of attack.
Though the long distance buses started plying from Saturday, private operators do not guarantee the passengers of their reaching the destination. Children are the worst-hit with nearly 10 days of school gone. We can't keep the children at home all the time. They become restless. We have to tell them stories of people who are being lynched outside to keep them from venturing out.