Panaji: Goan Journalist and playwright Thomas Manuel has written a book titled Opium Inc. – the story of the worlds biggest drug deal Today he had a discussion on his book via online medium at International Centre Goas Kitaab session. The discussion was hosted by Dr Pushkar who is the Director at the International Centre Goa Thomas currently works at India Ink a public history project where he makes videos about how the past continues to affect us today. Thomas book speaks about the opium trade in the nineteenth century when the British East India Company operated a triangle of trade that straddled the globe running from India to China to Britain. From China to Britain they took tea. From Britain to India they brought an empire. It was a machine that consumed cheap Indian land and labour and spat out money. The British empire which had its colonies in India as well as China was facing a financial crunch. In his book Thomas writes how they solved the problem by introducing opium trade which became a source of income for the British on which they built their empire.

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