The bonded labour system enslaved generations of Indians until Indira ji brought in the Bonded Labour Aboliton Act in the seventies. The Priyadarshini tea estate was established as a cooperative in 1984 to rehabilitate bonded labour from tribal communities in Wayanad. They were freed from a brutal system and given their rightful share in the ownership of the estate. It remained a success story until wear and tear of the machinery and redundancy brought about a decline in productivity. It was tra