The silver anklet manufacturers here have claimed that for the Onam festival, the orders from Kerala has come down by 60% due to the recent natural disasters. Usually during the Onam festival, silver anklet units in Salem would get orders from jewellery shops in Kerala. But this year, the silver anklet manufacturers claimed that the orders have reduced to 60%, …
In a hot, crowded room in Salem city, Soundarya, 23, and her mother Kamala work like automatons methodically placing little silver flower designs on a pre-made cast of a silver anklet. “Among the wares that they would sell were silver anklets, and slowly, the quality and intricacy of the designs marked Salem’s silver anklets out from the designs produced at …
