Manu Joseph: Don’t read too much into the Noida violence—poverty does not transform people into criminals
But, considering the fact that thousands participated in the agitation of factory workers and hundreds of househelps raised slogans against a colony, the actual acts of violence were mild. In fact, the episode shows the extraordinary restraint of the poor. It reveals how unlikely violent or criminal behaviour is for a large number of people who outnumber the middle class.
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