War in the Middle East shatters India’s 400-year-old glass industry

War in the Middle East has disrupted manufacturing industries throughout India, including its four-century-old glass manufacturing industry. Producers in Firozabad, located a few kilometres away from the Taj Mahal, have been forced to turn down the heat in many of their gas-fired furnaces. Hundreds of workers have been put out of work as India’s “glass city” reels from gas shortages.