Welcome to the land of the Dabawallas

Aziz Kassim wrote the below article published in the TRE. He called
these workers Dabawallas, a termed used in India. In colonial Singapore,
a similar term is coolies, the uneducated and unskilled workers selling
their labour, sweat and muscle, in exchange for a few cents or a bowl
of gruel. Those were the days when Singapore was in the Third World,
run by a colonial govt whose interest is