1 / From Bengal

The building in Ahmedabad hosts hundreds of small workshops, nearly all of which are involved in the production of jewellery. Earrings, necklaces, bangles, rings. And come late in the evening, there are hundreds of children waiting at the food shacks downstairs for cheap food to take home. The small rooms upstairs may contain machinery or workers but nearly all the workers are young. Some are very young, far too young, for doing this job. There is suspicion that many of the children are from Bengal, but it is difficult to get answers from anyone. The clues are in the signage and the calendars on the walls. Written in Bengali, the language of a state on the opposite side of India, thousands of miles away.