How Tamil Nadu’s Cooperative Spinning Mills Created an Entire Industrial Town in Coimbatore
On a damp morning in Singanallur, a suburb that bleeds into Coimbatore’s sprawling industrial belt, I watched Ramasamy Gounder, a 72-year-old retired mill worker, point at a row of concrete buildings stretching along the Noyyal River. “Every one of those structures,” he told a local reporter in 2023, “was built with money that belonged to … Read more