The shocking news of the day was the killing of GM(HR) by an arrogant work force on one of the MAruthi manufacturing plants.He was charred to death with 100% burns. An act of barbarism, to say rhe least.As more news poured in it turned out that many more
EXECUTIVES of the rank of DGMs/GMs have been injured , some of them badly in the incident.
MY immediate recollection was the novel "Mercuri pookkal" by Balakumaran, whose hero was killed in a factory strike by anti social elements, creating irreparable damage in the relationship of the management and workers and how the wife of the deceased play an unforgettable role in soothing the anger of workers on one side, while the relaisation dawns on the factory owner , from the words of his mother.She says :Hunger
has got one solution only and that is food" If one is deprived of food consequential effects are irreparable damages, I do not know whether it holds good for the events in MARUTHI FACTORY and even if it holds good, i could not digest this in human act of the muRder of a GM who was in his mid forties.
Today marks the death anniversary of the legend actor Sivaji Ganeshan,It is a strange coincidence, that the day coincides with the day when the ashes of RAjesh Khanna will be dissolved.My thoughts flew a decade back when under my presidentship we organised a tribute at Honkong in memeory of the great legend Sivaji Ganesan.It was a musical performance
wherein select songs of Sivaji were sung by the Tamils living in Hongkong accompanied by brief but fitting critcal acclaim and commentary .The programme which lasted a little over 3 hrs was a run away success, just bacause of two reasons Reason number one is that a progrmamme on the legend can not fail and the reason number two is that there was instant acceptance when the theme was floated from one and all and the tem work, dedication and passion made the rest.
Even as i am on this blog post, news of India winning the toss and electing to bat at the first one day at Srilanka had ticked in/LET US LOOK forward to AN INTERESTING TUSSLE between the bat and the ball and let the better side win.
The tragedy at the Maruti factory reminds me of a novel called Lord of the Flies - which is all about how human beings become animals in a mob.
ReplyDeleteWhile I will not equate the workforce in question to a mob, nor try to justify what they did, one never knows when hungry stomachs will lose it all in act of rebellion.
I have always believed that there should be fairness in every fight; but a friend recently made me see the other side - sometimes fairness is just not tenable.
The worst affected in all this would be the GM's family for no fault of their own.