For decades, India’s diamond industry offered workers a way to a better income and life for their families. Not anymore.
By Anuj Behal and Suchak Patel
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Surat, India – In 2018, Alpesh Bhai enrolled his three-year-old daughter in an English-language private school in Surat. This was something he never imagined possible while growing up in his village in the Indian state of Gujarat, where his family survived on small fields of fennel, castor and cumin, with their earnings barely enough to cover basic needs.
