Mohan’s musing: When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers –an old African proverb  

This driver sounded very upset and he had reasons to be. Today he is jobless

It was couple of months back…. He had an alternative job offer from another resident in the complex and when he approached his current employer, both the husband and wife got very upset and just to teach the poacher a lesson, they marginally increased the salary of their driver and net result. He stayed back,

However what really pissed him off was that in the next couple of weeks, they called him and in a routine manner signed him off giving their transfer as the reason. One could not be more empathetic to his current situation especially with a family of four dependents on him for their daily bread.

I was wondering  how different this incident is from the plight and fate of over  2,600 workers in Bengal whose future hangs in the balance as Ambassador Production has stopped  with the irrevocable decision of the management to close shop and move on

If we roll a few years back, Ratan Tata wanted to set up the Nano factory in the same state which could have been the ‘right time’ lateral opportunity for all these seasoned and well trained skilled workers and technicians. Most of them could   have hopped on to something new, better and more reassuring of future

However like the couple who held back the driver; the current CM, then the leader of Opposition was the greatest antagonist and tumbling block to the idea; to the extreme extent that one fine day TATAs decided out of disgust and frustration to bid TATA to Bengal ……the rest is history

The coin had been dropped…. leaving the poor victims to fate and state of frustration and fury. Here was an opportunity missed all for the vain sake to score a brownie political point.