We as a family did suffer a lot due to the strike. But our suffering was much less than a few, who had to sell their houses in the CHAWLS and stay in the Balcony, outside their rooms and were driven to extreme poverty.
The bottom line was, it was globalization. The Textiles mills were never going to earn profit, so thought the owners of the mills and wanted to move out it, since cheap cloth was produced in other parts of India/ World but this was only one part. The business model of the yester India was to make a BIG PROFIT, it never had the logic of sustained growth because u see still VIMAL and BOMBAY DYEING and etc are running on.
No one can blame the workers and neither the management because both thought they had the situation under control.
Ultimately it was the unfortunate wifes and children of these workers/ management staff who suffered. Even the Management lost all the jobs, u cant have managment if you dont have workers !!!
So any one who thinks he is SHANA and wants to blame any one, first he has to study the reasons for the strike and why did it go so long even though after the while the workers wanted to get back to work ?
The world of economics is very unforgiving. My suggestions to all the childrens of "Girni-Kamgaar", who are reading this... get higher education get good jobs/ start ur business earn good money and forget the past.
Try and Enjoy life, there is more to life than looking back at those bad days. I think i lost my teen age because of that but thats life.
I love life. I love Mumbai/India for what ever it has to offer.
