Workers who have lost jobs in Saudi Arabia
It is with pain that I read the news of people who have lost jobs in Saudi Arabia. As such they do live in sub human conditions. They slog to give a luxurious life for their immediate family members. These family members build palatial houses and most of them hardly have proper jobs thanks to the communist thinking of the Kerala state which in turn has led to nil industrialisation. Excepting for Tourism and IT sector nothing else has been allowed to flourish.
On the social front it is a state where women having been taking care of households due to the absentee husbands but in public they are dominated by the patriarchal system. Though the Kerala woman is literate she is not educated.
Adultery, suicide, alcoholism have begun dotting every village in Kerala
Nearly every household is a dysfunctional one due to absentee husbands/fathers.
The sad truth is once the workers return from Saudi they are treated by the same family as a pariah or outcast. His value is only till he sends money. He has no other job opportunities. Even if he tried to implement a novel idea , red flags and the labour union will send his ideas to death. If he wishes to return to agriculture there are hardly any lands available and if available there is no labour force. If he tries to bring in machinery he would be stalled by red flags again.
So his only work would be to pray that the Gulf countries open up opportunities soon. He may soon end up in depression or suicide.
We may blame or complain about sub human work conditions in other countries but do we bother to look into our own backyard?
On the social front it is a state where women having been taking care of households due to the absentee husbands but in public they are dominated by the patriarchal system. Though the Kerala woman is literate she is not educated.
Adultery, suicide, alcoholism have begun dotting every village in Kerala
Nearly every household is a dysfunctional one due to absentee husbands/fathers.
The sad truth is once the workers return from Saudi they are treated by the same family as a pariah or outcast. His value is only till he sends money. He has no other job opportunities. Even if he tried to implement a novel idea , red flags and the labour union will send his ideas to death. If he wishes to return to agriculture there are hardly any lands available and if available there is no labour force. If he tries to bring in machinery he would be stalled by red flags again.
So his only work would be to pray that the Gulf countries open up opportunities soon. He may soon end up in depression or suicide.
We may blame or complain about sub human work conditions in other countries but do we bother to look into our own backyard?
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