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Rajan's naked photographic lense and his sharp words has evoked biting words
from both sides of the divide. I for one wholeheartedly support Rajan for his
honest potrayal of what is
going on in Goa. The truth hurts or perhaps embarasses people.
I am not against migrant labor. In a democratic India everyone has the right
to live and work where he chooses. I hire migrant laborers myself, and anyone
is free to come ant talk to them about our employer/employee relationship. We
have such respect for each other, that they invited my wife and I to visit
their homes in the suburbs of Hubli. We accepted and visited their far flung
villages, paying our respects at their village temples before visiting their
homes.We were treated with great respect and honor. Each year they call me
from their villages, asking me if I have work for them. And when I do I
provide them shelter and proper toilet facilites and pay them a decent wage..In
return I get an honest days work from each of them.
It is the exploitation of the poor migrant laborers that galls me however.
We see these all over the Goa. By the Mandovi river, and wherever construction
is taking place there are encampments of workers. They are probably brought in
by contractors, paid a pitiful wage, and forced to live in tattered tents with
their families including young babies, along the roadside and any other vacant
space around. In the morning you can see the bottle brigade heading for the
closest bush to defecate. The stench of excrement assaults the senses
especially when one is walking on the road, as opposed to driving by. The Law
as I understand it, requires contractors to provide toilet facilities to their
laborers. I have yet to see a construction site where toilet facilities are
provided to the workers. This is what
Rajan has been portraying in words and pictures. It is the naked truth. Call
it arrogant, brash, or whatever, but the it is still the truth.
Vivian
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