We the NRIs
We the NRIs A recently arrived Indian shared his suffering. He left his well paying job in Mumbai, India and joined a company in Saudi Arabia spending hefty sum on visa processing and consultancy charges. Now his Saudi employer had reduced his salary to half of that promised. He had no idea how he could go back and join his previous job in Mumbai. I suggested him to approach Indian embassy attaché in Dammam. One day a friend of mine called from Dubai and asked to help a victim under similar situation. I call these people victim of abject poverty, greed, and of course exploitative, merciless Saudi employers. I travelled a long way to reach the hapless boy of under 20. He had been employed by a company in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia as a crane operator. On arrival he was asked to do manual lifting of heavy items which he never did earlier. He refused to do so. His employer beat him up and sent him to Mazra'a. Mazra'a is date farm generally located outside cities. He was asked t...