00:02This is Morbi, Western India. It's the engine of the country's ceramics industry.
00:07The second largest industrial cluster of its kind in the world.
00:12But decades of growth have now been derailed.
00:16Inside Kishore Dilera's factory, the machines have stopped.
00:19We've seen a lot of wars before, but this one really affected us.
00:23Operations collapsed almost overnight, when war in the Middle East disrupted the flow of gas.
00:30Gas is the main material. It's what makes the ceramics hard.
00:34India imports around 60% of its LPG, almost all of it through the Strait of Hormuz,
00:39a critical route that's effectively blocked and now at the heart of ceasefire negotiations.
00:45If the war goes on, normal people can't afford it, and factories can't absorb the cost.
00:51Across Morbi, more than 500 factories have shut. Hundreds of thousands of workers are affected.
00:58Hari Gupta has worked in these factories for 20 years as a kiln operator.
01:04There's no cooking gas. Workers shut down. My kids need to go to school.
01:09I'm the only breadwinner. How will we manage?
01:12He can't return to his village. His health won't allow it.
01:16But he also can't stay here for too much longer.
01:20I'm pleading with God. This war must stop.
01:24Thousands of migrant workers are leaving Morbi every day at train stations like this, bus depots,
01:29and even crammed into the back of trucks.
01:32Now, after more than a month of factories being shut, waiting for them to reopen is untenable,
01:37and going home is the only way they can survive.
01:40A distant war, with consequences felt here in the lives of those who can least afford it.
01:46Wait.
01:46Maybe now?
01:47Always Tempo a bop.
01:4765 What are the killed lessons?
01:47No one.
01:48If they left me home at bus stop.
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