Sickly sweet business
arun Kumar, a jaggery trader of Muzaffarnagar Gur Mandi in Uttar Pradesh (up), has fallen upon hard times. "During the past decade, the gur (jaggery) business has slumped by two-thirds,' he laments. His brother, Roshan Lal, who is the secretary of the mandi union too feels the situation is hopeless: "The future of jaggery trade is bleak in up.' What appears to have sounded the death-knell for the business in the state