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  • Posted By: Anand1972 @ 11/01/2007 5:54:59 PM

    India is a very dirty place and Indians are the most filthy people in the world. India will never progress beyond third world status!

    • Posted By: shutyourmouth @ 12/19/2008 12:34:38 AM

      Why dont you try changing the system, or at least give it a try. Unless you do it, you have no right to talk about what India is and why you seems have cockles instead of what you are supposed to have

    • Posted By: MikeWilson @ 11/06/2007 6:02:16 AM

      Anand .. While You enjoy Yourself in a country ( whichever rathole who have crawled into ) .. Go suck Your dad's *** while You are at it ... Or dont call yourself Anand anymore - Better - Cockshit cokbreath ...People like You should be shot and fed with their own excreta ...Like the prisoners in the Gulf War ....

  • Posted By: foghorn @ 11/09/2007 7:19:09 AM

    Has Mike Rowe seen this?

  • Posted By: rubysmama35 @ 11/07/2007 3:25:34 PM

    Posted By: Anand1972 @ 11/01/2007 5:54:59 PM
    Comment: India is a very dirty place and Indians are the most filthy people in the world. India will never progress beyond third world status!

    Posted By: MikeWilson @ 11/06/2007 06:02:16
    Comment: Anand .. While You enjoy Yourself in a country ( whichever rathole who have crawled into ) .. Go suck Your dad's *** while You are at it ... Or dont call yourself Anand anymore - Better - Cockshit cokbreath ...People like You should be shot and fed with their own excreta ...Like the prisoners in the Gulf War ....
    Whoa!! Where did all THAT come from?

  • Posted By: myPoint @ 11/05/2007 11:17:12 PM

    If India has to develop they should be ruthless and slaughter animals like western countries do and talk "animal cruelty" blah blah blah.
    India should be shameless by the fact that like many western countries they should import talent (Doctors, Engineers to construct highways etc, Programmers) and make great strides instead of helping other countries by exporting their talented people. I am sympathetic to US workers as many lost jobs to hard-working, less greedy (by taking less salaries) Indian workers. I am also saddened by the fact that Americans can get jobs only where English is the main language.
    I am not advocating fake resumes but one thing I do not understand - you need talent or resume? Hiring managers are not deaf and blind to hire them just by looking at the resume and not by the knowledge. Those managers, even if they recruit people with that credentials, are not obligated to keep them if they are not upto the mark. Indians are fools that they pay all the taxes (Medicare, Social Security etc) eventhough they know they are paying them for the disgruntled people like some of the commentators despite knowing the fact they do not enjoy or get to enjoy those benefits unless they get Green Card (which is a herculean task) and they decided to settle here (only few Indians opt to live here despite getting all the permanent status etc). What do you call those Indians? Fools? Altruists? Back-stabbers? you name it. It is so ironic and disgusting by the fact that Indians come here with so much of trouble and decide to go back once their sons or daughters come to 5th or 6th grade. It is so ridiculous that they go back for the benefit of their children (to avoid western excitements - gun shootings, drugs, pre-marital sex etc) denying all those to their children and wealth that they can build here.
    Looking at all these I am realizing India can not reach the level of USA in the near future due to the moral, ethical and family values. I agree partially with you my fellow commentators!!!!!!!!

    • Posted By: Shankardada2 @ 11/06/2007 2:07:58 PM

      Speaking of animal cruelty, I have seen plenty of trucks in India with chickens hanging by their legs on long poles while still alive. I have seen many Indians beating dogs with sticks.

      • Posted By: myPoint @ 11/06/2007 5:49:54 PM

        You talk about animal cruelty and slaughter animals for daily living. You talk about human rights, you violate them. You talk about killings in countries and you promote them (eg. in Iraq, Afghanistan etc). You divide the countries by any manner you can. Simply saying you live off other people. You pollute the whole world by your luxuries and talk non-sense when it comes to other countries. You will go any extent to get gas and daily supplies from China. You basically live entirely on others. If you have seen Indians beating dogs then what do you say about Dog fights here? Atleast Indians let the animals live but you? Kill them if they are not adopted. You keep them in your house like in a cage. You put the leash on all the time. You neuter them. YOu kill animals (in thousands) everyday to fill your belly. You kill people to get oil.

        • Posted By: Shankardada2 @ 11/07/2007 1:27:30 PM

          I don't kill animals in the thousands. Today I only contributed to the death of a cow and a turkey. Maybe later a chicken. But thousands?

        • Posted By: Shankardada2 @ 11/06/2007 8:00:52 PM

          You say America lives entirely on others? That is just silly... If that were so, then where does the money come from? Wealth is created in America and then some of it makes its way to China. China's standard of living is growing because of America. And India's will grow even more, once its infrastructure improves.

    • Posted By: Shankardada2 @ 11/06/2007 1:07:21 PM

      No Indian can lecture Americans on morals or ethics. Indians do not pay taxes, they exploit the poor, they throw trash in the streets. Many, but by no means all, Indians cheat on their wives in brothels, and then spread HIV to them. Why do you think there is an explosion of sexually transmitted disease in India? Homosexuals in India are routinely pressured into marrying women, whom they cheat on with other men. The seedy underbelly of Indian society is never acknowledged. Indians have a tendency to just play dumb and pretend it doesn't exist. Go to some of the clubs in India, and you will see people having sex and throwing their dirty condoms right there on the floor! It is ridiculous that police issued a warrant for Richard Gere in Bombay! Why don't they go after the pimps who are subjecting tens of thousands of young indian girls to sexual slavery every day???

      • Posted By: myPoint @ 11/06/2007 4:50:23 PM

        Oh! Really. Ethics?? Americans? Don't talk trash man. What percentage of Americans pay taxes? What percent cheat on taxes? Exploitation is everywhere in your so called "our" country. You should be ashamed of yourself by having a name "shankardada". Cheating by husbands in India only? Cheating is much more common in Western countries than in India. Your dad (if he is from India) cheated on your mother? Did you do? I haven't seen many cases. STDs are due to the lack of education. Your so called great country blown the proportion of HIV cases in India that those numbers turned out to be like "Iraq having WMDs". We can explain either an un-educated or fully educated but not a mean and half-educated. Don't teach anyone here about clubs in India. Look at in your backyard in US. There are bunch of ....Prostituation is not only in India if you open your eyes. Ateleast, prostitution in India is due to poverty but Prostitution in USA is for? Go to any downtown in any twon or city in US. You will realize you are playing dumb and do not have guts to admit. In all my arguments I am not denying facts but making you realize they exist everywhere. You may be one of those backstabbers in the history of a great country (India). Don't blame India. Think straight and be sober

        • Posted By: Shankardada2 @ 11/06/2007 7:56:58 PM

          You are right about cheating being more common in Western countries, at least on the part of women. I think men in India probably cheat nearly as frequently as men in America. But one would never know because Indians sweep such things under the rug.

        • Posted By: Shankardada2 @ 11/06/2007 7:47:27 PM

          Backstabber, or Devil's advocate? India won't get better by pretending to be great. Indians seem to feel morally superior to Americans, but in reality, conditions in India do not support such statements. Indians love to make themselves feel better by saying, "we may not be as rich, but Americans have dirty minds and filthy morals." Sorry to say, but Indians are poorer, AND have dirtier minds! Americans are kinder to their fellow man, more generous in donations and aid to the rest of the world, and more willing to uphold the law. In India, even if you want to make a donation to build a school or hospital, you must first bribe the sleeze-bag local politician. In India, you don't pay taxes, you pay the tax collector. In India, people preach morality while exploiting the poor (that's what this article is all about). America is the greatest nation on earth, in terms of GDP, opportunity, acceptance of minorties, personal liberty, fairness, and rule of law. Is America perfect? NO. Of course not. Americans strive for growth and self improvement. It is easy to accuse Americans of exploitation of other peoples. Any superpower will get its way more often than not. But honestly, what other superpower in the history of man has been as fair as the U.S.? Maybe the Soviets in the latter 20th century? Maybe the Germans in the early 20th century? Maybe the British in the latter 19th century? Maybe the French in the early 19th century? Compare the U.S. with these other superpowers and you will see what an improvement our country is. Americans have made foreign policy blunders, but our politicians are held to account and eventually right their ships, as we are currently trying to do in Iraq, with or without Bush. India has potential, but Indians need to change a lot of their own mindset first. It can start by giving poor Rakesh some self protection equipment.

  • Posted By: silotwo @ 11/06/2007 10:45:43 PM

    I agree that there are many Indians who are straight forward, open, honest, and very hard working. I also believe this to be true in any nation. To point to Americans in an attempt to discount or deny the conditions that the majority of Indians are forced to endure does not change the truth. I heard proud stories about the foreign investment in manufacturing that brought billions of dollars to India in just three weeks. I saw with my own eyes that India is in a state of development, large quantities of heavy trucks and road building equipment, vacant and parked along the side of yet to be completed roadways. I also watched Indians working on bamboo scaffolding four stories off the ground while barefoot. While being driven to a business lunch I observed more than a few people sleeping on pavement and bathing in public with only a pitcher of water. When we arrived for lunch and drove through a gate, the opulence and luxury that was suddenly around us astounded me. Throughout lunch my hosts behaved with the utmost sense of entitlement, nothing was to their satisfaction and they seemed to go of their way to demonstrate to me that their every demand would be met. I commented to my hosts about the road equipment that I had seen and asked them why more people weren't working on the construction projects. Their quoted response was, "Indians are lazy people and do not want to work, they are content to just get by each day". Remember that these are Indians talking about other Indians. I felt that Indians were slaves to other Indians and expressed my opinion to yet another well-educated Indian manager. He explained it to me like this, "if you are born into a family that is served, you will always be served and never serve, if you are born into a family that serves, you will always serve and never be served". This same manager told me "human life here has no value, only the rupee has value". I believed him because investment in physical infrastructure was as obvious as the lack of investment for a workers safety, as evidenced by the barefoot workers on the bamboo scaffolding. I suppose developing roads will attract more foreign dollars while workers injured or dying will have no impact. You state that Indian society is so complex that it takes ages to understand it. I agree yet I must ask if reaching such an understanding will provide Rakesh with a safer work environment and a better quality of life? You say that Western countries live at the expense of flesh from other countries while you seem to deny that some Indians live at the expense of the flesh of other Indians. I believe that we all do disservice when we justify and rationalize the most outrageous sort of nonsense in order to accept the unacceptable. Similar to the alcoholic who points to the heroin addict as having a worse problem in order to perpetuate the denial of his own problem. Please know that for me this not about any nation being better or worse than another nation.

    • Posted By: Shankardada2 @ 11/07/2007 10:18:45 AM

      You say that this is not about any nation being better than another. But Indians can clearly learn from the American example.

    • Posted By: Shankardada2 @ 11/07/2007 10:08:51 AM

      Excellent comment.

  • Posted By: myPoint @ 11/06/2007 9:03:46 PM

    You are bringing all the absolute shittity topics to the fore and if I bring Iraq you are questioning it. You must be truly confused Desi who knows nothing. I understand your limbo status and your observations and comments clearly depict that the shallowness of your knowledge about world things and your surroundings. I knew you must be an ABCD noticing your bragging about Americans of Indian descent. Why do you expose yourself and your lack of knowledge in a public forums like this. Go get some education. I pity you. I do not like to waste my valuable time on this absolute BS and with with a complete Idiot. You may not have stuff to do (as many others in US) and argue but I am no way interested in such a crappy comments from people like you. People like you who are second to everyone has no place to comment about such a great and wonderful country like India. You are a disgrace to our entire Indian community if you are 100%, 50% or 1% Indian. We all Indians pay condolences to your pathetic state

    • Posted By: Shankardada2 @ 11/07/2007 10:11:01 AM

      myPoint - stick to the issues. India's work conditions and discrimination against the poor. Have you run out of substantive responses?

  • Posted By: myPoint @ 11/05/2007 11:16:57 PM

    Indians are the most straight forward, open and honest. They say what is in their mind. Unlike Americans they lack the tact or skill to talk or act diabolical. Unfortunately, Indians have to work so hard ,as the article pointed out, as they are poor and they only have to think about their livelihood instead of thinking about luxuries, drugs or unconventional sex etc. These dirty Indians work like dogs in US (and India) since they are slaves to their own good work ethics and sincerety. These so called filthy Indians are so emotionally attached to their families that they do not leave their parents on their own ,when they are in need of support, and enjoy with living partner (strange concept to Indians). Also Indians do not know how enjoy as you can see that they are stick to only one partner with divorce rate being so low. I know Indians, unlike people from other rich nations, eat to live (as opposed to live to eat). As you can see in the picture majority of the Indians are so thin as eating is not their primary goal they can not compete with the developed countries in terms of obesity etc. They are so naive that they think only about work, earn money to feed the families and not about enjoying themselves with drugs, booze, sex (conventional and unconventional). How can anyone agree that Indian can reach the status of developed countries? Most Indians can speak only TWO or more languages, what a shame!!!
    Based on my fellow commentators remarks, it seems Indians have one more great quality - i.e. make the rest of the world fools by exaggerations. If one person can be fooled one time that is fine but if 100 people can be fooled 100 times then it is not called fake or exaggeration - it is called truth. I do not know if "silotwo" is an American/Indian/Indian born American but I can say this - Indian society is so complex it takes ages to understand. If you think you know everything about India by living for 1 or few years then you are fooling yourself.
    India should develop a lot - in the sense - they should stop disrespecting fellow Indians rather they should follow the foot-steps of Western countries where they live at the expense of flesh from other country people.

    • Posted By: silotwo @ 11/06/2007 10:33:27 PM

      I agree that there are many Indians who are straight forward, open, honest, and very hard working. I also believe this to be true in any nation. To point to Americans in an attempt to discount or deny the conditions that the majority of Indians are forced to endure does not change the truth. I heard proud stories about the foreign investment in manufacturing that brought billions of dollars to India in just three weeks. I saw with my own eyes that India is in a state of development, large quantities of heavy trucks and road building equipment, vacant and parked along the side of yet to be completed roadways. I also watched Indians working on bamboo scaffolding four stories off the ground while barefoot. While being driven to a business lunch I observed more than a few people sleeping on pavement and bathing in public with only a pitcher of water. When we arrived for lunch and drove through a gate, the opulence and luxury that was suddenly around us astounded me. Throughout lunch my hosts behaved with the utmost sense of entitlement, nothing was to their satisfaction and they seemed to go of their way to demonstrate to me that their every demand would be met. I commented to my hosts about the road equipment that I had seen and asked them why more people weren't working on the construction projects. Their quoted response was, "Indians are lazy people and do not want to work, they are content to just get by each day". Remember that these are Indians talking about other Indians. I felt that Indians were slaves to other Indians and expressed my opinion to yet another well-educated Indian manager. He explained it to me like this, "if you are born into a family that is served, you will always be served and never serve, if you are born into a family that serves, you will always serve and never be served". This same manager told me "human life here has no value, only the rupee has value". I believed him because investment in physical infrastructure was as obvious as the lack of investment for a workers safety, as evidenced by the barefoot workers on the bamboo scaffolding. I suppose developing roads will attract more foreign dollars while workers injured or dying will have no impact. You state that Indian society is so complex that it takes ages to understand it. I agree yet I must ask if reaching such an understanding will provide Rakesh with a safer work environment and a better quality of life? You say that Western countries live at the expense of flesh from other countries while you seem to deny that some Indians live at the expense of the flesh of other Indians. I believe that we all do disservice when we justify and rationalize the most outrageous sort of nonsense in order to accept the unacceptable. Similar to the alcoholic who points to the heroin addict as having a worse problem in order to perpetuate the denial of his own problem. Please know that for me this not about any nation being better or worse than another nation.

  • Posted By: sooner @ 11/06/2007 4:43:17 AM

    My heart goes out to the man who lied to the UN, resulting in 10s of thousands of Iraqi deaths, 4000 American lives, torture of innocent people with the wrong last name, and absolved people who murderered innocent Iraqis. And I say to the American people - If you have human hearts, read this story and act!

    • Posted By: Shankardada2 @ 11/06/2007 7:51:33 PM

      What does Bush have to do with this story? It is about Indian sewers, not Iraq.

  • Posted By: wanoushka1 @ 11/06/2007 5:27:35 PM

    its 2007. why do they still have this caste system in India? I cannot believe these people are subjected to working in such terrible conditions. Its just awful.

  • Posted By: wanoushka1 @ 11/06/2007 5:25:47 PM

    It is 2007. Why oh why do the Indians still have this stupid cast system. I cannot believe that these people are working in the sewers. It's just awful.

  • Posted By: jilanias @ 11/05/2007 12:46:52 PM

    Thank you for this article. India has had an extremely fake, fluffed up, and imaginary image in front of the whole world. I must say their marketing, media, entertainment, and people are very positive and optimistic about their country. While their pride is definitely well deserved, you will be shocked to know that the hype of India and its people is the vivid imaginary work of some very clever Indian businessmen in the private sector. They have strategically sought out to target the core heart and soul of western economics by saying "we can do it for cheap". Their successful dog and pony shows all over the world has lead the world to believe that they are all that. Under these false pretenses and more the rupee has flourished and so has the property value in India. I do truly admire that so much was accomplished all under a facade of lies and exaggerations. Lately because of articles like this, the truth about India is slowly starting to emerge. Even Indian Americans will not deny that outsourced customer service really sucks. Life in India is filled with poverty, injustice, corruption, and so many more shocking facts which are still yet to pop up. Almost every Indian I know has a fake resume, and they are in this country working using fake credentials. There are underground training organizations in the US as we speak that are helping, training, and placing Indians in high paying jobs all under false resumes, certificates, and credentials. I have proof. The media needs to get busy because this is a huge story. Everyone is riding and taking advantage of this huge wave that India is this almost super power and that its people are the most educated and qualified. Please open your eyes America, because this kid from the city is a dirty old fox playing us all.

    • Posted By: grand_inquisitor @ 11/05/2007 4:58:45 PM

      I concur jilanias. Its all hype for much needed American $.

      • Posted By: Shankardada2 @ 11/06/2007 2:35:59 PM

        Jilanias, all first-tier customer service sucks, whether it is sourced in India or Harlem. They just read off of a computer algorithm. Duh. Americans are no fools to seek out unqualified employees from abroad. And if they hire an Indian that can't do the job, which is uncommon, then they can fire them. An Indian has much more to lose in such a scenario than an American. This is generally doesn't happen, as Americans of Indian descent are amongst the most highly trained and well educated and highest wage-earning groups in the country. Ever seen an Indian ghetto in America? No? Ever seen an Indian physician/engineer/computer scientist? Yes? My point exactly.

  • Posted By: bohdansz @ 11/06/2007 3:25:09 AM

    My heart goes to these unfortunate workers! And I say to the Buffets, Gateses and Slims, and other such billionaires: the ball is in your court! If you also have human hearts, read this story and act!

    • Posted By: myPoint @ 11/06/2007 9:56:36 AM

      Thanks for the kind words. Yes, the ball is partially in their court. They can choose to help develop or not develop their own wealth and their country's progress and advancement. Many agree - they are wise and know what is best for their country and their own and act accordingly

    • Posted By: myPoint @ 11/06/2007 7:47:40 AM

      Yes, the ball is partially in their court to choose between - Development or No Development. But they are very wise and know what is best for their own sake and their country

  • Posted By: MikeWilson @ 11/06/2007 6:04:14 AM

    Anand - Go suck Your Dad'd *** - cockbreath

  • Posted By: sooner @ 11/06/2007 4:38:34 AM

    I guess lying to the UN, causing the deaths of 10s of thousands of Iraqis and 4000 American lives, torturing innocent people who have the wrong last names, absolving americans who murdered innocent Iraqis is a job description that was not in consideration.

  • Posted By: silotwo @ 11/05/2007 9:46:51 PM

    Having just returned from Delhi, Kolkata, and Hyderabad I can honestly say that my senses have yet to recover. Photographs, print, documentaries, none of these alone or together have ever impacted me to one degree as did personally witnessing the activity of life there. I had the opportunity to deal with business owners and their managers. I was shocked to hear justifications and obvious denials from even the younger 20 to 30 year olds. I did not get into the politics, religions, or history. For me it was simple. People, one person to another, rendering the most dispicable treatment and disrespect to another human being. I was told by a young manager, "you need to get over this and accept it, it has always been and will always be this way". As if "it" was devoid of any personal responsibility for contributing to the circumstances and conditions I had questioned. This is nothing more than my opinion regarding my own personal experience. One thing is certain, I am now even more conscious of my own behavior towards others in my own country than I was before. Poverty, suffering, and ignorance have no geographical bounds.

  • Posted By: silotwo @ 11/05/2007 9:39:28 PM

    Having just returned from Delhi, Kolkata, and Hyderabad I can honestly say that my senses have yet to recover. Photographs, print, documentaries, none of these alone or together have ever impacted me to one degree as did personally witnessing the activity of life there. I had the opportunity to deal with business owners as well as their managers. I was shocked to hear justifications and obvious denials from even the younger 20 to 30 year olds. I did not get into the politics, religions, or history. For me it was simple. People, one person to another, rendering the most dispicable treatment and disrespect to another human being, this still has me sleepless most nights. Yet as I was told by a young manager, "you need to get over this and accept it, it has always been and will always be this way". As if "it" was devoid of any personal responsibility for contributing to the circumstances and conditions I had questioned. This is nothing more than my opionion regarding my own personal experience.

  • Posted By: bepositive @ 11/05/2007 6:03:00 PM

    Please, respect the sentiments of others also. Agree, all country has its own good and bad. We are seeing people at the age of 70 working in america or age of 80 left to live on their own. We can feel that India is progressing, but not as fast as other wester countries did.

  • Posted By: makemebarf @ 11/04/2007 8:24:00 AM

    India. Filthy nasty dirty smelly awful hellhole on earth. The place where people bathe in the filthy river with goats. Hell on earth. This does not surprise me at all because the whole country is a nasty smelly wasteland. Makes me want to vomit just thinking of this muck filled putrid country.

    • Posted By: grand_inquisitor @ 11/05/2007 4:57:12 PM

      I second makemebarf and jilanias. I visited Chennai and Hyderabad recently. The smog levels and filth are 5 times worse than Houston or LA.
      And my job was not taken over by "intelligent" or should i say "mediocre fudging up his resume" indian. jilanias is right ! Most of them cook their resume. They have "0" innovative skills.

    • Posted By: My view @ 11/04/2007 9:03:00 PM

      Makemebarf, I think you lost your job because of one of the intellegent Indian or the other fact should be that you never walked out of whatever town you are. Get yourself more educated...

  • Posted By: jilanias @ 11/05/2007 12:46:42 PM

    Thank you for this article. India has had an extremely fake, fluffed up, and imaginary image in front of the whole world. I must say their marketing, media, entertainment, and people are very positive and optimistic about their country. While their pride is definitely well deserved, you will be shocked to know that the hype of India and its people is the vivid imaginary work of some very clever Indian businessmen in the private sector. They have strategically sought out to target the core heart and soul of western economics by saying "we can do it for cheap". Their successful dog and pony shows all over the world has lead the world to believe that they are all that. Under these false pretenses and more the rupee has flourished and so has the property value in India. I do truly admire that so much was accomplished all under a facade of lies and exaggerations. Lately because of articles like this, the truth about India is slowly starting to emerge. Even Indian Americans will not deny that outsourced customer service really sucks. Life in India is filled with poverty, injustice, corruption, and so many more shocking facts which are still yet to pop up. Almost every Indian I know has a fake resume, and they are in this country working using fake credentials. There are underground training organizations in the US as we speak that are helping, training, and placing Indians in high paying jobs all under false resumes, certificates, and credentials. I have proof. The media needs to get busy because this is a huge story. Everyone is riding and taking advantage of this huge wave that India is this almost super power and that its people are the most educated and qualified. Please open your eyes America, because this kid from the city is a dirty old fox playing us all.

  • Posted By: FqtTraveler @ 11/05/2007 10:30:20 AM

    I am sorry for the ignorance of some posters here. India is both the most beautiful and at the same time the most ugly of any country in the world. It is not the only country whose sewers do not live up to American standards. Americans wake up and count your blessings. You denigrate others who are behind in their progress, and vilify the people of other countries. I can't believe someone would actually bring politics into this discussion. What a despicable low class comment! If you have ever traveled to other countries, you will find many countries have this problem with their sewers and therefore people have to clear them out to keep them flowing. You notice they do not have sewer treatment facilities either, but allow the raw sewage to flow into the streets and rivers. Instead of giving billions of dollars in aid, those countries who provide this aid, mainly the USA should send engineers to build modern facilities for these countries. Then the money would not go to line the pockets of corrupt politicians. The Indian people are some of the most humble, courageous and wonderful people in the world, they have lived with these conditions forever. If you were born under these conditions you would not know that there is any other way until someone shows you and helps you fix the problem. They live on the streets on cots with card board to shelter them, they work in the same professions their parents worked in forever. The laundry is done on a special street and the laundryworkers wash, spread the laundry to dry on sidewalks and roof tops, then fold it neatly and wrap it in newspaper. Do we do our laundry that way? No, we have washers and dryers and modern cleaners. Do not be so quick to criticize others for their culture. Where they are, we once were. India is changing, but it is a slow process to educate that many people and to upgrade facilities that have been in use for decades. All of you who criticize should go there and see for yourselves the contrasts. India is a beautiful country, but millions pour into the cities to find work for a season and then depart to the countryside when the season is over. The cities cannot service these seasonal workers who raise their population by so many, these people are happy to find work of any kind. Would you rather see them starve? Is starving more palatable to your sensitivity than working in a sewer? This man loves his family enough to sacrifice for them and provide food so that they can live.

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