employment. The new public transport system facilitated the movement of labour from one corner of the globe to the other corner. The coolies became a part of the state bondage.
There was a change in the labour system. Coolie was a new state contracted labourer. This new kind of labour force comprised people at the bottom of the labour market. When they signed a contract, they were bound to work till they ended in debt. The “coolies” were contracted for the rest of their lives. The contract between the employer and the coolie / worker was sanctioned by state power. Coolie ordinance had a penal sanction. If the coolie was trying to escape from the mines or plantation system where they were bound to work there were provisions for penalizing him. 
The harsh reality of the coolie regime was highlighted in a report by a public prosecutor on his visit to the East Coast of Sumatra. A person of Euro Asian parentage called Rhemeref went to East Indies and through the help of native informants came up with a report on the ground reality of the plantations. Governor General in the margins of the report had written “what a horrible story?” Though this report focuses on the coolie regime, which has come to end, have the labour relations undergone a change?
It is important to understand the changing relations of capitalism and production. New forms of bondage are beginning to emerge as women leave to work in West Asia from Java. Are people interested in their narratives? Women come back with horrifying stories of passports being taken away and other brutality but people are only concerned with the remittances they bring back home. After two months in village; they embark on new journeys. It is against this backdrop that we need to understand neo colonialism and how globalization has changed the relations of production.

11. Three Day Media Programme (Film Screenings, Photo- Exhibition and A Day Long Workshop) 

A three-day media programme was organised by CRG to reflect on how issues of displacement, forced migration and xenophobia have been represented in audiovisual media. The media segment had three components: film screenings, photo exhibition and a daylong workshop.  

1.                  Screening of films on Forced Migration followed by a lecture by Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay. (11 December 2007) 

2.                  One-Day Media Workshop on Forced Displacement of Population. (12 December 2007) 

3.                  PowerPoint presentation of 100 photographs dealing with   Israeli occupation in Palestine by Ariella Azoulay followed by a talk on “What can be seen: from "invisible" to visible occupation” and screening of a documentary film titled “The Food Chain”. (13 December 2007) 

1. In the session on film screenings, films on partition of the Indian subcontinent, one of the most gruesome events of South Asia were shown to the participants. The session was initiated by one of the renowned film experts Sanjoy Mukhopadhay. Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay, introduced the session on films on forced migration with a screening of several images of partition that had been taken from Bengali and English newspapers of