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Mahatma Gandhi’s role in ending indentureship

Dear Editor, Nearly a hundred and ten years (March/May 1917) after the end of recruitment of indentured labourers from India and nearly 106 years after the abolition of indentureship in British colonies, the contribution of Mahatma Gandhi to the campaign against that dehumanizing system remains an important chapter in the history of India and the making of the Indian diaspora that is spread across the globe. The

Dysfunctional framework

Our democracy functions within a dysfunctional framework.  We have a Constitutional Reform Commission charged with consulting the public and formulating proposals for revising our foundation document, but the very composition of that body illustrates how far we have strayed from the principles which underpin any genuine democratic polity.