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Study the picture given below carefully and answer the following questions:

 

(a) What do you make out from this picture? How do you differentiate one labourer from the other?

(b) How are indentured labourer different from usual laboueres?

(c) What emotional turmoil does a human been undergo when he is identified only by a number?

 

Answer:

(a) The picture shows the photographs of twelve persons supposed to be indentured labourers. They can be recognised only by a number. There is no other way of differentiating them except the number attached to each one.

(b) An ordinary labour earns by rendering his/her labour wherever he/she likes to work. He/she is free to leave the job when he/she wants or join any work he/she likes. But an indentured labour is bound with the employer by a contract or agreement to work for him/her wherever he/she is sent. Once he/she arrives in the place of work, he/she is at the mercy of the employer, he/she or the person cannot oppose him or leave the work at his/her will.

(c) Every person needs an identity. A person work throughout his life to create an identity through various ways hoping that people will recognise the person as an individual with some qualities. But the feeling that he/she does not have a name or any identity except for a number, results is tremendous emotional suffering. In case of an indentured labourer there is not no end to his suffering.