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Traders observing a Bharat Bandh, ostensibly as a form of protest against Foreign Direct Investment in the retail sector, managed to hog a fair amount of space on Twitter for a while. Rahul Srivastava tweeted: 'I guess only children look forward to Bharat Bandh, so they can play cricket on the streets.u00a0

Dear politicians, get the sarcasm.' Akhila Shankar added: 'Bharat Bandh has never solved anything. Never has. Never will.' Some thought it sent out a powerful message though. Like Bhaskar Chatterjee, who commented: 'Usually, traders and businessmen are the first to oppose a bandh. Today's Bharat Bandh by traders is history. Congress has no place to hide.'

'To all those living positively with HIV, may you have a full life and live it fully!' Messages like these flooded timelines on World AIDS Day. Also, tweets like this from Timothy Marbun: 'Magic Johnson. Remember him? 20 years fighting HIV.' And from Raul Romeva: 'The enemy is HIV, not HIV carriers. Let's not forget this.'

From filmmaker Farhan Akhtar: 'They've gone and done it again! Digging up all roads in Bandra! What are they looking for... Maybe we can help?'

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