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GLOBALISATION PUSHES VARANASI WEAVERS TO HUNGER AND DEATH

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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