Ninety percent of the world’s diamonds are processed in Surat. But these days, the mood in India’s diamond city is lackluster, because business has never been worse, and a lot of people are out of work. It’s all a distant ripple effect caused by war in Ukraine. Reporter Sushmita Pathak has the story.
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