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Episode: Guftagoo with Shafiullah Siddiqui | A retired foreman from Churk Cement Factory
Description: Conversation recorded in Gorakhpur at the guest's house on 14 April 2015
Mohd Shafiullah Siddiqui (Born 4 October 1930, Mohammadabad, Siwan) is a self made person. He worked mainly in the Churk Cement Factory, Sonebhadra (Energy Capital of India, then known as Mirzapur, UP). He is one of those hundreds of skilled and unskilled labourers who have joined this factory (Pt Nehru termed as the temple of Independent India)
Gurma Markundi was the place where various limestone mines were dug and used to create Cement.
This region became an industrial heaven from an area of forest and...