Before we left Faridabad, Dr. Sharma took us to see a factory he works at. He has a small (non a/c) office where he takes care of the hundreds of workers there. He also claims he is a “senior legal advisor”...who knows if that's true or not, what is certainly true is Indians love their titles. This side job pays for his mobile phone, his gasoline, and his car, and he gets all this for only working here for 30 min/day one day a week—28 minutes of which he sits in the air-conditioned front office, sipping chai and eating biscuits.
But that's not the interesting part. That would be the actual factory itself: Shubham Flexibles Packaging Machines, Ltd. The workers here assemble packaging machines that put labels onto plastic bottles. The factory warehouse is huge, with people working on maybe 50 or 100 machines on the main floor, all at various stages of assembly. The completed machines are then brought into an air-conditioned room where they are tested by engineers, who run large aluminum rolls of labels through them to make sure everything is working properly. Touring a third world factory was quite trippy.
-Alex
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