Lindsay Pereira: The dead we choose to forget
Updated On: 20 January, 2018 06:14 AM IST | Mumbai | Lindsay Pereira
Manual labourers continue to die in appalling conditions across and beyond our metropolis. When was the last time we cared?
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On the first day of the year, five workers fixing a sewer line underground were killed. Manhole cleaners in other cities died too. File pic for representation
Rajendra Pal, a 20-something labourer from one of the thousand small towns that dot rural India, was impaled by two iron rods a week ago, while working at a construction site in Nariman Point. They didn't puncture any vital organs, so Pal survived, but I have been looking for media reports since that accident, trying to figure out why it occurred and whether or not anyone has been held responsible for Pal's well-being and obvious inability to get back to work for a while. Will his family be taken care of? Will he be assured of work when he recovers? Will he be capable of going back into manual labour, for lack of an option, after those stitches are removed? I have failed to find answers.
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