Many unfortunate expatriate married bachelors are living in the UAE who are forced to take bachelorhood due to circumstance rather than choice.Many come here to improve their standard of living but it is a sad fact that the standard of living for themselves deteriorates in the process of improvement in the living condition of their families in their home country.

We can say Inflation, unchanged salaries and exorbitant rents are the important factors which affected them. They have no choice but to live alone. There are many who say I shouldn’t have come here in the first place and now after having come here are in a catch 22 situation as they cannot go back and start all over again back home and with financial commitments at home they are compelled to endure their stay here by becoming the sacrificial goat for the families sake and a better living for them.

Technology definitely has had some respite for them as now everything has become virtual & electronic so now they can see and talk with their loved ones over web. This technological evolution is a great boon for the ever increasing Bachelors in the Gulf. Earlier, I remember people recording their voices in cassettes and sending it over to their loved ones. It still exists with the illiterate community here. The life of these bachelors is worth a movie so people can understand their hardships and the love for their loved ones filled with the outpouring in the cassettes and virtual correspondence. I hope people will think about the role these unfortunate people play for the development of this country and take good care of them. The people who are lucky to have their families here should involve them in the community instead of putting blame on bachelors and isolating them. They should instead be welcomed in the community. Of late I have seen so many letters discriminating bachelors. & I suggest if they are a menace punish those who are and not all the bachelors who happen to live there to eke out a living.

A Ghori