There is a saying in Hindi ‘Jis Thali Main Kahte Hain Us Thali Main Naheen Thooktein Hain’ which is as ‘One does not spit in the plate which one eats in’.

i learnt the lesson incredibly early in life as a third-generation immigrant in Mumbai and then (second generation) in the Gulf. Be grateful as an immigrant, as a temporary guest worker one is a ‘guest’.

I am grateful for the work and study opportunities which Oman, UAE, and Singapore over the past three decades has provided me and my parents as an Indian Citizen.

Keep your radical politics at home. We support our families from work that we do not find at home.

#Majulah

#gratitude

Agneeveer is the gigfication of the public sector, where labour pool is a plenty and opportunities are few. The phenomenon of temporary contract work is not new in the public sector as teachers are often contract based. The next step would be to hire tech firms to create a platform for matching agneeveers to security guard work.

The corporates are happy as they have another precarious pool to hire. I see the PMC recruitment booming as agneeveers head overseas to fight in conflict zones for a fee.

it’s something is i find radical- the everyday mundane character of kindness.

The #Agneeveer protests have shown an addiction to a job which gives social protection rather than delivering the goods, the performance, and the optics of working in the public sector. It is not a demographic dividend, a disaster in the making. #Jobs

Home is a place in the soul even if a dot in the past, like a shrapnel it is remembered.

Agneepath is a common metaphor for the BJP sarkar, it has taken many a baptism by fire by DeMo to Agneeveer. It cannot be blamed for lack of josh, including withdrawing farm laws indicating an ear to the electoral winds of the time.

Being small is not a disadvantage in the commercial realm as thinkers and doers can be catalysts and clients will only respect if actors are original, and clutter breaking.

The problem with reskilling is not the hesitation to learn but the safe space which a person needs to learn, even after making the error. The older one gets, the need for dignity increases.

Near Tanglin as i was on the bus to the city, i came across a name in the street called Taman Nakhoda, which is the captain or master mariner in an Arab Dhow and thought of Indian Ocean connections from the Hadramout to SE Asia. These physical inscriptions are a remainder.

Platform economy delivery riders offer themselves as the last mile infrastructure which is as physical as it can get get as their bodies are on the line. In the gig era, humans are a service too (Pressl 2018).

The characteristic of a gig economy is one of ‘sociospatial atomisation’ where each worker is a discrete dot on the app map as an independent contractor where they compete against each other for the next order (Wells et al, 2020). The paucity of common spaces to gather is a common issue as the workplace has been extended to the scale of the city. The geographically sticky work is however unearthing hidden spatial terrains of rest in the back alleys where the gig economy rider takes a smoke break before the next delivery. Jakarta gig riders have made the common Kopi shop to charge their phones as a base camp (MIT Technology Review, 2022).

There are widespread attempts to include gig workers within the social protection net in Singapore and India.