New Generation Slave Trade

Americans are genius; they are the rulers of the world and will remain their janta for years to come. The east has not even sensed what dose of anesthesia has already been injected into them by now. We are completely unaware of the extent to which we are in to the age-old traditional way of development on their land. Yes I am talking of SLAVE TRADE.
We may continue to think for years to come that we are going through an Industrial revolution. But the fact is that the Yankees will make you believe on whatever they want you to, and it is exactly what they are doing at the moment.

With considerable development around the world and improved living standards of people in eastern part of the world practicing the same kind of slavery was not possible, rather was not required as the way the world trades today does not need hard working physical labours from Africa, but their replica in terms of mental labours. By replica I mean that they are treated in the same manner, paid in the same manner, and made to work according to their level of sustainability. They are not beaten up like the past slaves were for physical work, but are tortured mentally in terms of money, contracts and timeless assignments. And they do not rebel, because they know that what exactly is the level of thinking of a man from east has.

Taking instance of the so called “software industry boom” that India is going through. If we take a close look at the current scenario of the IT companies in India, we are mere workers for their industry. What they actually earn from an average project in India is hundreds of times what actually the Indian companies get. The peanut paid to Indian software engineers is like what we pay to the housekeeping maid who comes everyday and washes our dishes, or the sweeper who once in a week comes to clean our toilets.
I know that my words are too harsh for an intellectual mind, a genius programmer or a successful Indian software employee to accept, but this is what I am seeing right now and I have no intentions of offending somebody who disagrees with my word.

The world has rightly grown into an international market and it is we who need to decide that what we are in the market. Each country seems to have a role taken up for itself a role in this market. The superpowers stand for the entrepreneur, shop owners, manufacturers, industrialists, sales executives and almost all-top position that a market can provide. And we have undoubtedly assigned our own roles as labors, artisans, carpenters, cobblers, mechanics and almost everything that a poor man does to earn a living once he learns some skills.

It is not just IT that is facing this scenario; almost every industry is going through the same phase. We assemble cars in India; we assemble television sets in India, we sell in our shops with pride all the consumer goods that are made in “not -India”. We do it because they know how to get it done from us. But the saddest part is that we hardly get to realize what we are doing and what we are capable of.

The bottom line is we are made virtual horse – cart due to our own brilliant ability. This is the same proletariat – capitalist relationship (though not so harsh). We are running and running but still somebody is sitting on our saddle. No matter how much caliber the rider has and no matter what are the sufferings of the horses.

And this is not trait of a particular race or group of people but it’s natural human behaviour, we all love to rule on others. If we’ll get chance to ride on the horse – cart we’ll jump for our chance. After all we are humans.

I hope one day we will ride on our own destiny nobody will take advantage of his position his ability to ride on cart his culture, his artistic attitude. Alas! How many bluff masters are there in this world.


- Sudhanshu Shekhar
(Writer is a Software Engineer working in Mumbai)