I interviewed a tailor who worked at the Anaj Mandi factory in Delhi for 10 years. He said at the factory, he stitched low cost bags for Airtel Vodafone Reliance Zomato & several state govts. The owners usually placed one child worker at every 2 machines. newslaundry.com/2019/12/12/bra…
A caretaker locked the migrant workers in the building every night, because the local residents preferred it and felt safer this way
The owners deducted Rs 5 from the payment for every bag a child stitched as rent for staying the night in the building. The adults who had worked many years did not have to pay this amount, he told me #DelhiFire
After being at their machines from 10am till midnight, the workers moved their sewing machines to one side and spread the polyester material of the backpacks to sleep on. #DelhiFire
The workers, including the children, frequently hurt themselves at work. He showed me his left thumbnail, which was pierced by a machine needle at the top. “When the needle goes through the pain is so intense it makes one feel dizzy and throw up at one’s workstation,” he recalled 
The day of the accident, the tailor, counted 56 workers being carried into ambulances from his terrace, several of whom were friends, people he'd worked with. After the factory’s locks were opened, a few men came out, in their underclothes. He gave his clothes, shoes to help them
Two days after #Delhifire, the tailor moved to another floor in another building. Teenage boys, young men sat behind electric sewing machines stitching backpacks laptop bags lunchboxes for big firms. What is routine becomes extraordinary, briefly, when we report it as an accident
