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Lockdown brings Bengal Blacksmiths’ work to a grinding halt

Iron Workshop Ripon Sheikh

CJP grassroots fellow Ripon Sheikh investigates the plight of small industries as they face total unemployment and loss of business due to the lockdown, in West Bengal’s Birbhum.

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