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71 Diamond Workers Commit Suicide In Modi’s ‘Vibrant Gujarat’

Mon, 2009-02-02 07:49 | Babulal Likhure

THE corporate world was so elated over inflated investment figures reportedly inked at the Vibrant Gujarat summit that they immediately crowned chief minister Narendra Modi as a future prime minister of the country. But what the corporate honchos did not know is that all that investments, even if true, come to the state only over 71 dead bodies at the altar of the glittering diamond trade of the state.

Diamonds and Blood

Mon, 2008-07-28 11:35 | Jayati Ghosh
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The basic tragedy of the African continent whose natural wealth has generally brought about even greater misery for its own people because of the rapaciousness of native and expatriate profiteers may not end so easily. It might be worth keeping this in mind the next time we look at those soft-focus advertisement photographs of women wearing those gleaming stones as symbols of lasting love. Economist Jayati Ghosh writes.