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CWG side-effects

This is perhaps one of the millions of posts that have already been written about CWG. But an incident early this morning made me consider awakening this dormant blog.

A door bell at 7 in the morning woke me up from my partial asleep state. I found this man standing at the door with a hope clearly visible in his eyes - a hope to get a job from me. I quickly recognized this man to be my car cleaner until almost two months ago. Although I have to admit that I had forgotten his name. Like many other laborers, this man too was made to leave Delhi at the time of CWG due to lack of identity details. As a result, he lost work from all the households who he served prior to CWG.

After a little conversation about his trip back home, I told him that I now have a replacement for his job and won't be able to employ him for cleaning my car anymore. That was followed with a moment of absolute silence. Although I did realize that he was trying to speak something, his heart filled with pain and his eyes filled with tears did not let him speak. Unsure on how to console, I told him that I shall let him know if there's any work for him in future.

The day started with a disappointing feeling of helplessness. Makes me think if someone is answerable for the loss of living of multiple such people.

posted by AK-84 @ 9:49 AM