How to pronounce“dharna”in English
retrieving bodies several International um you know rescue teams have arrived or
trying to arrive into dharna to uh um ships arrived at the Port of dherna but we're really finding it difficult to offload because of the condition of the
uh of the port and you know um many others are on the way as well but you know the situation the infrastructure is very difficult many of
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Definitions of “dharna”
A sit-in.
“ln December 1974, Morarji Desai, gave a threat of staging a dharna inside the Lok Sabha chamber. ln June 1975, Morarji Deshmukh, the Jana Sangh leader, stated that there had to be a Delhi Bandh to compel the Prime Minister to resign.”
A fast undertaken at the door of an offender, especially a debtor.
“[…] house-tax having been imposed on the natives during Lord Minto's government […] the Brahmins resolved to try the virtue of a dharna; […] The local government was exceedingly perplexed; for, besides the risk of hundreds perishing, there was the certainty of a famine, from the cessation of agricultural labour if the dharna continued.”