Every day my inbox gets flooded with press releases.(Mostly with unimportant releases, though) A year back, half of this were from Dubai.Now when things have slowed down, the steady flow has abated but there still is a trickle of such releases announcing to the world what Dubai is currently doing.
No, no more new buildings for some time...
The FM radio channels that we get here is all from Dubai and the world that side seemed to be shining, always, even when recession waves were hitting some countries and Dubai too to an extent.
It was the face of hard sell, of excessive marketing and now it has all gone bust...
Finally people are looking beyond the buildings and finding the face of the labourers who have suffered most in this crisis. Many of them have still not been payed their dues for more than a year, news reports say.
It was the most happening city, a city where dreams would be a reality, and a reporter had said, the city was more Las Vegas than Las Vegas.
Dubai, one of my cousins who lives there quipped, is the best city in India. It was a city in limelight and the torch-bearers were Indians too, Indians who have toiled hard to reach where they are.
But now dreams are being shattered, more now, than ever...
But I wish to God that the poor do not get poorer still while the rich are absolved of their sins of non payment of dues...
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How are you? Are your exams over?
The thing is when such disasters happen, it is the poor and middle class who get affected. :( I know the situation is different but just reminded me of Kuwait war time. People lost so much back then.
Dear Solilo,
Exams are over and I have passed. I belive in miracles you see!I have been busy with shifting too hence the silence, how have u been, have a lot of reading to do...!
Yes its a sorry state. I too read about the plight of many of the labourers in Dubai. Its sad and scary to see a booming city like Dubai getting hit so gravely by recession.
"I wish to God that the poor do not get poorer still while the rich are absolved of their sins of non payment of dues.."-I wish so too,Sindhu.
Its all very ominously quiet here.....the newspapers hardly mention anything but ofcourse we know why tht is.
The thing is the rich can get away with murder while the poor just whither away in the heat and then are finally shuttled back to the home country poorer than ever.
But there was a few organisations looking after their interests, hopefully all is not lost.
Congrats...just read that u have cleared ur exams:-))!!!!
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