The reminiscence is still so vivid in my memory till date. Twenty years back I came to then Calcutta (now Kolkata) to meet one of my in law. He got the job a for couple of years. A private company , most probably one out sourcing firm or a notch above that. The residence they took near the airport enough dingy alley to put in you a fix about the direction you must move forward. After trying my luck in the labyrinth of the lanes and bye lanes somehow I manage to check in one dorm in the second floor of a shabby building. The young gen are rushing out of the building in morning hours to graze on the job market , the stinky smell of the cowshed in the first floor on which the dorm is been hired to more than four boarders a room sometimes get so over rented that some of the beds need to get hired for two shifts in the day matching with time zone in the call centers where most of the guys are were working or searching jobs for. An impatient youth , the restless hearts are breathing too heavily in the chocking suboptimal environment of surrounding. Its those youth we speak of always to play our demographic advantages over others, the same card our politicians flaunt all the time to our ageing neighbor or older population of waste to show how advantageous we are take on the world near future. These are the same young guys who just rush out of these pigeon holes everyday to work in the kitchenette the back office of flat , crowded worlds bustling or bursting workshop of finance , economy or trading . they are the weaver bird of the whole wired network of supply chain of the every service goods and service companies in the greater world and lastly they are the great Indian youth force languishing in substandard ant holes to launch their careers in a big way.
The next scenery I will depict a suburb in Beijing, the folks staking their family’s last belonging to educate and qualify for big ticket job just landed in capital in aspiration of new life of comfort and decency. Right after landing they get themselves confined in a six bed dorm with untidy washrooms a common passage and the toilets sharing all the inhabitants of the building and lastly running after a job which either enslave them on lot of conditionality or just not allowed to them because of the connection “…” they say in Chinese . A frustrated , young educated workforce languishing in the locality always been addressed as ant tribes just to show their desperacy and number to search out the jobs migrating from villages a blot to the much touted double digit growth of a country basking on super economy power. Another group of restless hearts.
The comparison I have drawn just to turn our head from some excel spreadsheet to some real life fact , from unrelenting raining of statistics from the planning commission and ministry , the continuous analysis of mean , median mode of our demography of workforce to the actual status they are just been forced into. The way these young , upcoming new work force are being treated or should I say the standards they maximum can afford its no where compared to a few IITian or privilege college graduates being recruited from the campus and straight rehabilitate in the cozy campus of the corporate. These grim faced , low waged engineers much more outnumber the those few as well as they are the at bottom of the pyramid of every hierarchy of corporate pillar of the globalized world. They are the founding bricks of every business and they are the main code writers all those million of programme to integrate and run the world economy. Infact it’s a big paradox as well pretentious that the world still suffers from huge discrimination and ethnicity of the class, creed, caste , country(which school, what its pedigree etc) where the technocrats or the architects who are supposed to obliterate these difference are them selves inflicted with over dose of it.
The youth everywhere are same energetic , enthusiastic , enterprising and yes vulnerable to sheer exploitation also. The super clan of professionals just exploit them as ants. They come out of their dingy holes in Kolkata or Peking every morning to get to their job place and come back again in the evening or night on the little sustenance whatever they can afford to. They are as always the lowest paid, least privileged and labor class of the IT sector some got defined as code writer, some are designer and some may be system integrator, the job profile of all these abbreviation will certainly overwhelm the salary structure of these hapless humanoids or human robots living their life sans any complain, any issue.Like those equally disciplined(in movement and work) and disenchanted (from any special aspiration)ants the daily journey of these youth just starts and ends for collection of food not any cultivation of frill or even any fringe incentive .