Endurance City

"They don't have the right to treat Indian workers that way," said P who continued commenting on how ridiculous it is that the world gives China shit for anything she does, but makes little mention of the shocking conditions labourers face here.

P is an elderly Swedish gentleman here on a project. That said, almost everyone is here on a project. Even though he had seen worse conditions for labourers in India, it's still no reason why they should be treated the way they are here.

W was telling disbelieving friends tonight about seeing 2 Indian guys hired to sit out in the open without shade in 40 degree heat just to lift the barrier at vehicular entries to a construction site. At the Abu Dhabi airport open air carpark, where I was overwhelmed by the heat from the sky and the heat radiating at me from the bitumen, south asian men are hired by the truckloads to push the luggage trolleys away.

It is Ramadan now, and one can still see labourers toiling in the midday heat on the roadsides without food and water. Unbelievable.