Sultan Effect:-
As a team we
were around a dozen Indians working in our unit. The leader of the team is
yours sincerely” me “! As the senior most person, I am given a family status
and individual accommodation inside the factory. Other members have bachelor
status with sharing accommodation. I am lucky to have food prepared by my wife.
Other members are having servant maids to cook Indian food. Some of the
Malagasy servants have excelled in making Indian food items like Roti ( Flat Indian Bread) , Sabji (
Curry) and other items on a daily basis.
Thus the
teams boarding, lodging , washing, ironing etc. are all taken care by local
team Malagasy. Therefore the team was
supposed to take care of day today working of the works with 100% plus
dedication.
Does this
happen anywhere as desired. Boys are boys, that too boys with disposable money and
ample time at their always look for
avenues to sow wild oats wherever they can and whenever they can.
Some of the
team members were veteran from various nice experiences in African countries.
One of them on the very first day itself was asking what were the avenues for
him to have fun! He was boasting that in his previous assignments he had a
living in companion from local population and he used to always clad her with
saree and Indian dress!
Once such a thought
process was sown in people’s mind they were looking for easy victims to take
their turns.
Sultan was
the youngest member of the team. He was good in his looks, dress sense, work
and way of getting along with locals as he took extra interest to learn
Malagasy. It was purely because he was seriously handicapped with total lack of
English knowledge to communicate with anyone. Thus he took extra trouble to
master Malagasy. He had flair for perfumes, cigarettes, alcohol and food.
He was also
very fond of spending money on locals by way of doling out money whenever he
bought credit to charge his phone etc. Thus word spread around that he was an
icon in the making to throw money at every available opportunity.
He always
had an eye on RINN as he was fond of her. I had seen once RINN sitting and
crying in Sultan’s machine when we were commissioning the lines probably
because of his provocation.
When Sultan had been to India he had brought
and gifted Indian dresses to RINN which RINN Had told that she got from her
distance sister in Mauritius. This also proved to the reason for RINN’s
interest in learning Shukriya and other words in Hindi.
As RIIN was
the team leader, she used to come to factory early to set things right and
arranged. Sultan who also had to report for work early to start the line. They were found to be in
compromising position inside the factory by local workmen who started making
fun of the Indian team as well as RINN connecting her with all and sundry.
This started going out of hand as the word now
spread to the resident director’s ears. Once he had heard this he was then
constrained to act. In the meanwhile the man who wanted to have avenue for
entertainment was seen in various places with a local girl. Thus the director had
to set the whip cracking.
............................... to be concluded.
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