They carry our burdens, stay awake to make sure we sleep safely, clean the mess we create, in fact they help us with all the necessary chores of our lives.
Then how can the society claim them to be “not-so-important” members of the social circles.
This section of the society I am trying to elucidate upon have been labeled as the “Labour Class” in common terms (to name some; our drivers, sweepers,watchmen,maids). They actually help us complete the tasks that are supposed to be done by each individual on their own.
If we take into account the work they do, they should be called the operators of the clan.
Be it any field, we have them around assisting the big shots complete their crucial jobs on time with minimal efforts.
In our fast paced lives we forget to even notice the hard work they put in round the clock to make the elevators of our livelihood run smoothly.
All we bother is to reimburse their labor with cash.
All those people who consider them an inexhaustible resource meant to be exploited and count them equivalent to commodities that can be bought with money,
Here is a humble request for them:
Kindly open your eyes and realize that they are also human beings.
Talk to them at times, pass a smile when you cross past them, try lending a helping hand whenever you are free, share a meal or sit beside them and crack a joke, thank them in your own special way leaving aside the payment affair.
Neither the growing economic rate of the country nor the Industrialization, falsify the bare truth that it’s difficult to imagine Indian society without these “helping hands”.
They have been and will always be around to assist us manage our own work. Then why consider them as somebodies beneath us. Why have this false feeling of superiority over them.
If the kind of work we do is creating a division amongst the human beings, here is a very important point to be noted.
All these people performing the “lowly” considered jobs, are literally executing the task of scavenging dirt from the environment we inhabit.
It is definitely worth respecting!!!
