Inside Bengaluru’s Powerlooms: Migrant Lives Running on Shifts and Dust
- Miriam Rachel Mathew & Karuna Sarasuwathi Kumarappan & Grishma Mate & Lavanya Nandi & Mugdha Mathur & Deekshith R Pai 
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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.

Miriam Rachel Mathew

Karuna Sarasuwathi Kumarappan

Grishma Mate

Lavanya M Nandi

Mugdha Mathur

Deekshith R Pai





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