What for ?!! callous disregard for human life...

An injured person, medical condition not known, is carried to a hospital in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005.

Delhi Blasts Diwali October 29th 2005
Papia H. Sah

Dubai 4:15 PM

In the afternoon, Dad and i decorated the Diyas, i tried on the new floating candles and after a long time, being away from India , it felt like Diwali all over again! Diwali is so special for us, people get close, it lights up everywhere, and i waited till Pashu got back , for today we thought it being close to Dhanteras, that we would buy something for the house.
Pashu comes in and asks me if i know anything about the India blasts. I shake my head and we switch on NDTV and watch in horror!..mangled bodies of children and women, who were out for Diwali shopping just like anybody else.

New Delhi 6:05 PM

Sarojini Nagar Market, the market has so many memories, this is where i would have been if i was in Delhi!, I pick up the phone on instinct and dial my sis' number... she tells me in relief that infact she had been there and missed the blast by 10 minutes. I heave a sigh of relief, and then feel pathetic, about feeling better after i see so many people utterly devastated. I see pictures of the Chaat Corner i had frequented so many times !!
I switch channels, and there is horror in all.
After a few hours , they report the train accident in the south, mangled bogies, hundreds hurt and dead.

Hasn't the world seen enough natural destruction this year? Do more people need to die ?

Is this worth any cause!!??

Does any religion support this in the true sense?

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Horror Camps & Dubai

Horror Camps & Dubai
Papia H. Sah

It was yesterday that someone pointed out this French Documentary to me on www.expatwoman.com

Visit this ::: link ::: and scroll down to see this "Dans les soute de l'Eldorado". You need a broadband connection to view this, or else wait for ages!, I do not understand French like a lot of people, but what the documentary was pointing out is quite plain to see.
Dubai, a modern city ... in respects,

The tallest.., the largest..., the newest..., the swankest...etc etc, the list goes on. But care to see the muck, beneath?90% or more of the labour force in Dubai is Asian origin, most Indians, Pakistanis & Nepali. The documentary features, living conditions and gross human right violations. Not like i don't see it around me all the time, but this on TV was so "in your face!"

To list some atrocities…

* An average labourer gets 400 AED [ 100 USD ] / month...IF he gets it
* Some do not get paid for 5 months at a time.
* They can not bring family, this privilege is only for expats earning more than 4000 AED / month.
* They go home after 2 years
* They do not have their passports on them
* They have no health benefits
* They work outside when it is 45 - 50 degrees Celcius, day time temperatures during summers
* 6 people share a room with no cooling other than a fan, remember in Dubai, night time temps are 38 degrees
* It's a concentration camp
* 50 people at a time share toilets and bathing Place with terrible hygiene
* An average suicide attempt every month amongst them
* In Dubai you have construction going on day and night, guess who does it?

I am not talking about small numbers, each “labour camp” as it is called can have more than 10,000 workers and there maybe many labour camps.

World Wars are over, Hitler is obsolete, Genocide is taboo, but here in the most modern cities of The Middle East, concentration camps continue and flourish, with more being recruited each and everyday.

In this day of science, technology, human rights, whats our excuse?

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