Unfinished Story of a Migrant
Hundreds from my home-town emigrate every day. The act of Emigration is not new to the human-kind. It is probably what has made the human-race survive for this long. People from my home-town also migrate for the same reason - survival. Survival from the depressing state of affairs in that poor state, brought down to its knees begging for mercy from the plundering nexus of bureaucrats and politicians. The desire to escape negative life situations, and to be able to earn a living and put food on the plates for their children. From early 1980s the state has been dealing with poor governance, oppressing floods, and criminalization of politics. In-fact Kidnapping for ransom is the most sought after jobs for the aspiring, uneducated youth of this place. All through the 90s, the middle-class started to show their children a way out of this place followed later by even the poor strata who migrated to work as unskilled laborers. Earning a frugal living of USD 30 per month also was a ...