Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW Vol. 4 Num 313 Fri. April 16, 2004       Letters to Editor Suggest an alternative Mithun, Kabi Jasim Uddin Road, Kamalpur, Dhaka As a regular reader of your commentary, I did not miss the last one. In the "Post-hartal question to Sk. Hasina", you criticised the consecutive hartals sponsored by the Awami League and pointed out the losses suffered by the nation due to hartals. But it seemed to me that you avoided the question of what is the real alternative to hartals. You only brought the example of the initiatives taken by the traders of old Dhaka. They took several actions which included agitation on the road. My question is, how much could it affect the government? You said that we, the people, are well aware of the 'misdeeds' with the help of the print media and our daily life-experience. But you did not mention what should be our role to get rid of this situation. Do you recommend us only to watch all the misdeeds and wait for a natural cure? Hartal is bad for the country. Yet, is there any effective way to make the government know that life is becoming unbearable day by day?