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Inside Bengaluru’s Powerlooms: Migrant Lives Running on Shifts and Dust

  • Writer: Miriam Rachel Mathew & Karuna Sarasuwathi Kumarappan & Grishma Mate & Lavanya Nandi & Mugdha Mathur & Deekshith R Pai
    Miriam Rachel Mathew & Karuna Sarasuwathi Kumarappan & Grishma Mate & Lavanya Nandi & Mugdha Mathur & Deekshith R Pai
  • 4 hours ago
  • 1 min read

Working up to 12 hours a day for meagre wages, labourers from Bihar, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh operate looms in Bengaluru. But behind every metre of fabric lies a story of exploitation — unsafe working conditions, long shifts, and lives spent in debt and silence.


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Miriam Rachel Mathew


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Karuna Sarasuwathi Kumarappan


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Grishma Mate


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Lavanya M Nandi


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Mugdha Mathur


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Deekshith R Pai




 
 
 

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