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Well they say he is a diamond merchant and he cares for his people so much so that they worship him and listen to him, yet the man who lives in a palatial house seems to be tight with his purse strings. As some one pointed out earlier, he seems to be paying his workers just the bare subsistence wages that they all live in abject poverty, not having enough money to buy even vegetables. Nanaji had to borrow money inorder to be able to feed Hiten some decent food. If this is the plight of Nanaji who is a key person in his factory, the main man who polishes diamonds, one can well imagine the plight of the other workers. When there was a one week lock out, children went hungry. So it appears that the workers are barely surviving hand to mouth.
Coming to the gifts he buys for his people, here too DM seems to be pretty tight fisted. He has gifted his chokri a handmirror, which should not cost more than maybe ten rupees and a packet of sticker bindi (and that too from Antwerp)! With great reluctance he finally gifted her a pair of silver anklets, not even something in gold. All this for a woman who has saved his neck time and time again. She prevented his son from public hanging. She got his daughter married to an eligible bachelor even after the daughter in question brought disrepute to his family. Even Meghna and Rasik seem more generous than this man. Even if one were to see the gifts he buys for his own family, there is nothing to boast about. They all appear to be what a salaried class head of the family will give his family members, not a diamond merchant.
So to me DM seems to be quite relctant to loosen his purse strings. Lets see if Santo can make him a more generous man in future.
Seher Hone Ko Hai
Anupamaa
Naagin 7
