Business resumed on the Jiyaguda slaughterhouse in Hyderabad, which was just lately sealed over hygiene and compliance points and later reopened following protests by merchants and intervention by a legislator.
| Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal
Thak, thak, thak. The very first thing that hits you is the sound. The early-morning summer time daylight slants into the hunks of meat as Rahul lifts a three-pound iron cleaver and brings it down with practised precision, decreasing ‘medium’ cuts into ‘small’ ones on the slaughterhouse in Hyderabad’s Jiyaguda.
Around him, life unfolds in acquainted chaos. Men and ladies in gumboots and rubber slippers sip chai, rinse their arms, type meat. Buyers haggle, cleaners scrub, merchants shout directions. Some transfer about in garments stained with blood and flesh, unfazed, immersed in routine.
Published – April 10, 2026 07:34 am IST
