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Down & out in Diamond City

As the global financial crisis hits jewellery sales across the world, the human cost of recession is felt by the workers no longer holding priceless gems in their hands From Raymond Thibodeaux in Surat, India

AFTER nine years as a diamond polisher, 40-year-old Kalpesh Jadav earned about 5000 rupees a month (£68) - enough to finally start saving for what he and his wife Pushba, 38, had been dreaming of for years: starting their own family.