 "A power loom owner stands in his factory in Bhiwandi, that has come to a halt due to demonetisation. Photo: Sanjay Jog")
Mushtaq Shaikh has done something consistently over the past three months that not many in India have been able to: He has been going to work. A worker at a power loom in Malegaon--250 km northeast of Mumbai--Shaikh, 44, is gradually getting back on his feet.
“Our employers looked after us for the first three or four months [of the pandemic],” he told IndiaSpend on a recent September day, standing on the dimly lit, noisy, power loom floor. “The power looms opened up more than three months ago [some units opened in the first week of June and some in the
