Sunday, July 18, 2010

Slave labour and the Commonwealth Games:does India care about its down-trodden?

Thirty-five-year old Vijay is from Sagar village in Madhya Pradesh. His thekedar, who makes regular trips to the villages to round up skilled and unskilled labourers, had told him he'd be working on the beautification of Delhi University roads under the Commonwealth Games Project.

The day Vijay arrived at the Old Delhi Railway station, it poured. For a scheduled caste ahirwar, inured to the varied uses and abuses of society at large, the train journey itself was only an extension of his uncomfortable, untouchable life. Consider the facts. More...

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