October , 2008
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Chechi, satyam paranchal valare veshamathilanu. Graduation nirthittu jolikku vanatha (Didi, I truly am in deep trouble. I didn't even complete my graduation before I joined here). That was the first reaction I got from a Malayali Jet cabin crew member I met outside Raj Thackeray's residence in Mumbai. Jet had just announced 800 lay offs and these confused youngsters had come to seek some help from Raj Thackeray whom some described as a 'youth icon.' As I stood talking to them, more horror stories followed. "I don't care about losing this job, I know I'll get another. But it was just the way they terminated us. That hurts." This was the most common refrain. There were reports of employees who were waiting for their pick up cabs, which never came. And when they called up the office, they were rudely told that they had been derostered until further....
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Kajal Iyer is a senior correspondent with CNN IBN. She is a gold medalist in Mass Communication from Symbiosis Institute of Media and communication and got placed from campus. It was the shows like Surabhi, The World This Week and regular reading of Sunday Op-ed pages that prompted her to consider journalism as a career. Prior to CNN IBN, she has also worked for newspapers like Times of India, Midday in Pune and the Gujarati eveninger Sanj Samachar in Rajkot. She covers the civic beat in Mumbai and is interested in the basic bijli, paani, sadak brand of journalism, but also loves to cover the ocassional court room drama. Her biggest assignment till date has been covering Nariman house during 26/11 attacks. Writing is a passion for her and so is old Hindi film music. She is a trivia enthusiast and loves to watch shows on Discovery and the History channel.
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