what world thinks about India

[chooza]

Originally Posted by n6300

^ and where did the money for developing the desert come from ??

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[gaurav_indian]

Originally Posted by R2K

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UAE is not depending on oil resources anymore.......most of the income is made from real estate business...even george bush was amazed to see how they made a desert into such a beautiful country .........

I am surprised you are working in Dubai and you dont know where the income is coming from.Its definitely oil and apart from that they need slaves to build huge buildings and monuments mostly indians and pakistanis working like slaves there.


Read it

DUBAI: We need slaves to build monuments’- by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

It is already home to the world’s glitziest buildings, man-made islands and mega-malls - now Dubai plans to build the tallest tower. But behind the dizzying construction boom is an army of migrant labourers lured into a life of squalor and exploitation. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports
The sun is setting and its dying rays cast triangles of light on to the bodies of the Indian workers. Two are washing themselves, scooping water from tubs in a small yard next to the labour camp’s toilets. Others queue for their turn. One man stands stamping his feet in a bucket, turned into a human washing machine. The heat is suffocating and the sandy wind whips our faces. The sprinkles of water from men drying their clothes fall like welcome summer rain.


All around, a city of labour camps stretches out in the middle of the Arabian desert, a jumble of low, concrete barracks, corrugated iron, chicken-mesh walls, barbed wire, scrap metal, empty paint cans, rusted machinery and thousands of men with tired and gloomy faces.

I have left Dubai’s spiralling towers, man-made islands and mega-malls behind and driven through the desert to the outskirts of the neighbouring city of Abu Dhabi. Turn right before the Zaha Hadid bridge, and a few hundred metres takes you to the heart of Mousafah, a ghetto-like neighbourhood of camps hidden away from the eyes of tourists. It is just one of many areas around the Gulf set aside for an army of labourers building the icons of architecture that are mushrooming all over the region.

Behind the showers, in a yard paved with metal sheets, a line of men stands silently in front of grease-blackened pans, preparing their dinner. Sweat rolls down their heads and necks, their soaked shirts stuck to their backs. A heavy smell of spices and body odour fills the air.

Next to a heap of rubbish, a man holds a plate containing his meal: a few chillies, an onion and three tomatoes, to be fried with spices and eaten with a piece of bread.

In a neighbouring camp, a group of Pakistani workers from north and south Waziristan sit exhaustedly sipping tea while one of them cooks outside. In the middle of the cramped room in which 10 men sleep, one worker in a filthy robe sits on the floor grinding garlic and onions with a mortar and pestle while staring into the void.

http://iaoj.wordpress.com/2008/10/18...th-abdul-ahad/

Some youtube links


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6hMMptmHVE

Here are the picture of those slaves


http://gizmodo.com/5062693/the-miser...tural-splendor

[chooza]

Originally Posted by gaurav_indian

I am surprised you are working in Dubai and you dont know where the income is coming from.Its definitely oil and apart from that they need slaves to build huge buildings and monuments mostly indians and pakistanis working like slaves there.


Read it

DUBAI: We need slaves to build monuments’- by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad



http://iaoj.wordpress.com/2008/10/18...th-abdul-ahad/

Some youtube links


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6hMMptmHVE

Here are the picture of those slaves


http://gizmodo.com/5062693/the-miser...tural-splendor

Wow, Great find Bro Kudos to you.

[confused!!]

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[R2K]

Originally Posted by gaurav_indian

I am surprised you are working in Dubai and you dont know where the income is coming from.Its definitely oil and apart from that they need slaves to build huge buildings and monuments mostly indians and pakistanis working like slaves there.

yeah man.......the money for real estate business came from oil itself....and now as a result of oil depletion they are more concentrating on real estate and tourism.......and i don't understand why r u calling labours as slaves.....those ppl came there on their own wish....no one just came to india and forced them to work there......and ppl working there as labours are not much educated.......in that situation what kind of job do u expect them them do.....work as managers and executives??????... and if these ppl with less education go to US or some other european countries they are gonna do same kinda work they do over here....

and don't think that the whole bunch of indians working here are labours.....i guess u don't have any idea abt finacial and job status of some Indians here.....
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atlast let me remind u that we r diverting from the main topic

[gforce23]

Originally Posted by R2K

yeah man.......the money for real estate business came from oil itself....and now as a result of oil depletion they are more concentrating on real estate and tourism.......and i don't understand why r u calling labours as slaves.....those ppl came there on their own wish....no one just came to india and forced them to work there......and ppl working there as labours are not much educated.......in that situation what kind of job do u expect them them do.....work as managers and executives??????... and if these ppl with less education go to US or some other european countries they are gonna do same kinda work they do over here....

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My thoughts exactly.

[Ethan_Hunt]

So according to the thread title, the "world" means United States? When did that happen?

[gforce23]

Originally Posted by Ethan_Hunt

So according to the thread title, the "world" means United States? When did that happen?

Who's talking about the United States? There are barely any blue collar Indians in the U.S.

[Ethan_Hunt]

Originally Posted by gforce23

Who's talking about the United States? There are barely any blue collar Indians in the U.S.

Look at the thread's title & read the link provided in the first post.

[gforce23]

Originally Posted by Ethan_Hunt

Look at the thread's title & read the link provided in the first post.

Uh oh yes but the last 10-15 posts have been about Indian workers in the UAE.

[Ethan_Hunt]

^I wasn't referring to them in the first place.

[rhitwick]

I thought this thread was "what world thinks about India"...r we still arguing on it or dat matter is solved?

[R2K]

Originally Posted by Ethan_Hunt

So according to the thread title, the "world" means United States? When did that happen?

sorry dude....i couldn't find a better title for the thread..........should i change it?

@rhitwick. and gforce23

actually we were talking abt US ...........but gradually deviated from that and started talikng abt of UAE instead...........

i think we went too deep into discussions......leave UAE on its way and lets talk abt US instead

[Ethan_Hunt]

^Don't worry about it. I just wanted to indicate the thread title & the message within were kind of contradictory. US isn't the world, it's just a part of it, just like we are too.

[confused!!]

^^But US is trying to be the world