“Rather than putting reasons to celebrate, I am using this day to sound the ‘distress call’; hoping for someone to pay the heed to this humble ‘call for an overhaul’…
The ‘classic paradox’ is adorned with a set of overwhelming ironies—according over protection to the ‘organised’ ones actually worsening the unorganised’s ever existent agony…
Theft is illegal, so, one shall not steal! Fine…
But, I have got a universal reason to justify one’s dire need… You may not sense the desperation in their eyes, but only by the virtue of their unfortunate deeds— who were compelled to provide their dependent wards with ‘at max’ two square meals…
It’s time we assured them of their ‘valuable presence’, by an acknowledgement—irrespective of their ‘invisibility’; the dwellers of the edge, in this hour of crisis, at least deserve a little sympathy…
It’s time we celebrated their liveliness, who show up anyhow just to earn the livelihood… Let’s hope they again be handful with the jobs— even though beneath the dignity of human hood…
…even though beneath the dignity of human hood!”
~praveen katiyar
Twitter: @cosmo_2014
Note: Dedicated to the ‘unorganised workers’ of India.
#DesperateIndia
#InvisibleLabour
#MigrantWorkers
#Roti!