Debt trap looms large over A.P. weavers
At 6 a.m., when most homes in Angara, a village in Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema district, are still asleep, the looms in Balla Koteswara Rao and Balla Janaki’s cramped room are already at work. For the sexagenarian couple, a day means over 13 hours of work, putting in effort to weave one saree to barely…