Tuesday was a saving grace and a holiday for holidays. But at the dawn of Wednesay, the 20th, the strikers struck back. The rest of the banking community took the cue from the big brother, several other members of the public sector parivar followed suit and soon enough solidarity, if not a real time strike, was flowing from other sympathisers too. If still, the country was not paralyzed, it reflects either or both of the two things. The public immunity to strikes is near total; and there is a very little left to be paralyzed! But whatever the impact on a numb nation, the strike, coming as it did in the very immediate aftermath of a Pay commission bonanza, was an unkind cut and a pretty nasty way to say thanks!