Indian men smash bricks with their bare hands to make homemade grout. Out of 164,033 suicide cases reported in India in 2021, just over 42,000 suicides, or one in four, were among wage workers, according to the latest report by the National Crime Records Bureau.

First published in the September 20, 2022, 7:03 a.m. edition

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