The row of leather shops along the snaking 90-Feet Road in Dharavi in central Mumbai. Has been shut for more than a month now. Behind the road and perpendicular to it lies an unfathomable maze of alleys and passageways wide enough. For only two adults to walk by, hosting a jigsaw of semi-permanent ground-plus-one structures. Those are leather shops and double up as homes of workers.

The shutters on his shops on 90-Feet Road in Dharavi, Leather Touch and Zaraa. Have not been opened since mid-March when the Maharashtra government enforced. A shutdown in Mumbai almost 10 days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the nationwide lockdown.

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