Photography: Salman Saeed.
Social and economic distance of the tea workers with their Bengali supervisors including the managers is much wider. Francis Rolt, a British writer, gives a vivid description of the severe discriminatory conduct of the hierarchy towards the tea workers: “the tea gardens are managed as an extreme hierarchy: the managers live like gods, distant, unapproachable, and incomprehensible. Some even begin to believe that they are gods, that they can do exactly what they like.”
“Managers have anything up to a dozen laborers as their personal, domestic servants. They are made to tie the managers shoe lace, to remind them that they are under managerial control and that they are bound to do whatever they are asked,” writes another British human rights activist, Dan Jones.
hassan said,
October 13, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
expected more of u r thoughts n words………………………….
shakil said,
May 2, 2009 @ 9:42 pm
dear writer,
u ve express well the relation.but i request u to visit tea garden and try to find out the life there.this industry is totally different thn others.u need to manage ur labor on this way other wise u cnt manage ur garden.coz u r talking about those person who r living a life bellow thn a human.u need to manage them so for sustainably of the industry.other wise tea industry will be fall soon.
thnx again