GLOBALISATION PUSHES VARANASI WEAVERS TO HUNGER AND DEATH
In the congested Varanasi colony of Bajardiha, home to over one lakh silk weavers, despondency and desolation have descended over the colony. Muhammad Suleiman takes us to his dark cave-like warehouse, switches on a light bulb and shows us his rickety looms on which 12 weavers can weave a silk sari. He gazes reminiscently at the idle wooden, hand-driven weaving machine that helped him and the weavers earn a living not so long back. Log in for the full study https://www.academia.edu/3384746/GLOBALISATION_PUSHES_VARANASI_WEAVERS_TO_HUNGER_and_DEATH https://www.scribd.com/document/8947031/Report-on-Weaver-of-Varanasi-India