| After the firing, angry Left activists carried the bodies and sat on a dharna outside the collectorate. |
| An Indian custom of dharna is of similar significance, though less violent. |
| The women, one from every village family, are staging the village's daily dharna, a sit-in. |
| Another custom known as dharna is that of a suppliant placing a stone on the shrine of a god or tomb of a saint. |
| A year later, in April 1996, an indefinite sit-in or dharna was organized to demand that the State Government pass executive orders to provide a limited right to information on local development expenditure. |
| After dilly-dallying for more than one hour and when our MLAs said that they would sit on dharna, they allowed me and Bharathi to see him. |
