youth n world: January 2007

Friday, January 19, 2007

25 years after Textile Mills Strike in Mumbai

Textile

Mills and Mill workers , a heart of the Mumbai some decades ago, have been totally wiped out now from the face of the Mumbai. Why? What is the reason?

It is a well known fact that the indefinite strike that was called in January,1982 and whuch lasted for nearly TWO years in principal, totally shattered the mill workers and their families to the extent that lacs of workers and their families had to sell off their houses, utensils and had to literally come on road for survival. Major percentage of the workers left Mumbai in despair. The ultimate result is the total closure of most of the Mills and the mill worker category totally wiped out from Mumbai.

The areas which were predominantly Mill areas with mill workers habitats, are now rapidly getting converted into Malls and High Rise buildings. Where are the mill workers in all these?

Looking at the fast changing scenario at once so called "Girangaon", some questions come to my mind –

1.Was it an opportune time to call the indefinite strike in 1982 in view of the then prevailing textile market position ?

2.Who has been ultimately benefited- The Mill owners or the Workers?

3.What is the position of the displaced workers and their families now? What Government has done for them?

4.The role played by the Government in this strike Was it favouring Mill owners or the Workers ?

5.Finally, who is responsible for this debacle ?

Labels: Disaster, Education, Industry, labour

posted by Ajitkumar Wagle @ 11:19 PM 1 comments

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Oh ! Hyderabad

Last week I had been to Hyderabad along with my school friends of past 60 years. Earlier I had visited Hyderabad about 15-20 years before in connection with my business. The Old city of Hyderabad as I saw know, has gone from bad to worst with bursting population and the vehicular traffic conditions more deteriorated .

Apart from the usual Charminar,Golconda Fort,Salar Jung Museum,Qutub Shah Tombs etc., there have been NEW ADDITIONS viz. RAMOJI FILM CITY, The LASER Light Show at LUMBINI Park and the Snow World has definitely elated the position of Hyderabad in The Indian Map.

RAMOJI FILM CITY

It is spread over an area of 2000 acres and is a unique place with its vast numbers of ready to use sets right from Central Jail, Airport, Railway Station,Banks etc. is definitely an attraction to many film producers. Many film shooting are taking place throughout. The place has many added features for the entertainment of the family and esp. the children. The guided featured programmes like"How the movie is made?", " Re-enactment of the episodes from western cowboy movies", a and many other such programmes were quite fabulous. Even though, our group has far surpassed that age , we really enjoyed every moment of the day. The excitement amongst the children was unparalleled. It is definitely a place worth visiting.

LASER LIGHT SHOW AT LUMBINI PARK We had many times seen the dancing lights and the illuminated water fountains dancing to the tunes of music but the unique characteristic of this show is the projection of the picture on the water screen formed by the fine mist of the fountain.The picture sharpness was really fantastic. The whole event lasting for about 30-40 mins.was truly eye catching. In my opinion this may probably be the first place in India where such screening is done using German technology.

SNOW WORLD
The snow play arena at Snow world is spread over17,000 square feet area that is covered by ankle deep artificially created snow.You require protective clothing, gum boots, hand gloves etc. which are provided before entering the polar climate..The whole inside atmosphere is quite chilling with added blast of artificially created snow..

To feel the snow adventure there you may slide yourself down at speeds to replicate mountain fall with ‘Snow Slide’.There are also other sports like snow cruising with ‘Ice Bumper Car’. and ‘Merry Go round’ that will boost up your excitement. The show was really worth an experience.

Our tour became memorable only because of our visit to these places.

Labels: Disaster, Education, labour, Personal

posted by Ajitkumar Wagle @ 8:21 PM 0 comments

Friday, January 5, 2007

Where are we heading to?

The Noida killing of 35 children and the women in the highly populated industrial area at the hands of the businessman and his servant is one of the most gruesome incidence in the history of our country. It is still not known whether these victims were sexually abused and murdered or there is some organ trade in this since it has been found during investigation that some of the torsos of victims are missing.

In any case, there appears to be total carelessness on the part of police who had failed to take cognisance of the complaints of the missing children and women lodged earlier by the nearby villagers. Even though the Government has now taken some action against the erring police men, there appears to be a total apathy on the part of the ministers. One of the U.P minister has even termed this episode as"small and routine " and further states that such incidences will go on happening.This attitude speaks of their casual approach towards such episodes.

What is more bothering is the involvement of educated business class in this matter. With such thing going around us , we feel, how far our children are safe in such surroundings? Is this The INDIA of our dreams that we want to build?

Labels: Disaster, Education, labour

posted by Ajitkumar Wagle @ 10:32 AM 0 comments

Thursday, January 4, 2007

MUMBAI - It is Shame on you !

The news of a lady molested,mauled and humiliated at Gateway of India on the New Year's Eve by more than 50 persons, is quite horrible, shocking and disgusting. These people even tried to tear off her skirt and manhandled her male companion.

For Mumbai, which has a reputation of being a safe city even for a single lady to move around till late night, the pride is lost.One just cannot believe that such thing can happen in Mumbai.

Every Mumbaikar should feel ashamed of living in such barbaric surroundings.

Labels: Disaster, Education, labour, New Year Eve

posted by Ajitkumar Wagle @ 3:29 PM 0 comments

Monday, January 1, 2007

It is now 2007 !

It is a New Year now and everybody would like to forget the bad memories of 2006 esp. the Train Blasts in Mumbai, Bomb blasts at Malegaon etc.

With the coming of New Year people make resolutions to start various new things in life. This enthusiasm of being committed to the resolution definitely boosts once morale. However, as the days and months pass by the effect or the commitment towards the resolution slowly goes on diminishing, but this doesn't deter one from making new ones and by the year end one again gets powered to vow for new resolutions in the subsequent year.

That is life after all !

Labels: Disaster, Education, labour, New Year

posted by Ajitkumar Wagle @ 12:36 PM 2 comments

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