Men At Fearsome Heights!

The sky is the limit, they say it for those who can really climb up to make at the top in life. However, I found it frightening to even look at the same blue sky, as this story of mine must say! I got this shot captured through my cellphone camera, while walking down the SG Highway in Ahmedabad, this late afternoon. It left me wondering with mixed emotions. The first thing I could ask was, how do they manage it? Neither did they have any safety apparatus to evade or survive emergencies nor was their climb up the tower any smooth. Or am I making too much out of nothing by writing this? Do electricity firms show such disregard for their own workforce in other nations as well? Yeah, men do fall and die in a city like Dubai or Shanghai, where the reality has seen overheating. But, they also get better equipment and insurance to survive on there. However, we are faced with the Indian scenario in this case – most probably state owned firms – that see no logic in taking care of their own workforce – a meagerly-paid one. This sums the other side of India’s emergence as a major economy. I have myself been investing in the share market after the market crashed worldwide, hoping to gain some quick bucks. It is exciting to take part in the money-making process. However, there is an unaccounted queue of endless poor Indians that will not be spoken about by this success story. Btw, I walked along to notice how they had already completed this risky maneuver at several other places.