- Thursday, April 18, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
After polishing diamonds destined for luxury stores from New York to Hong Kong for nearly 10 hours in a cramped workshop in western India, Vikram Raujibhai went home, waited for his family to leave, and locked the front door. Raujibhai doused himself in kerosene and lit a match. His family returned to find the 29-year-old’s charred body, his case the latest in a series among workers with low wages and poor work conditions in India‘s booming diamond industry. Investigations spread over a year in the western Indian state of Gujarat found a pattern of suicides – many shrouded in silence – in the…
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