When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.” The old African adage holds true for over 600 labourers, working in the iron and steel market of Reay Road, who are caught between the business community and the State government with the former protesting against the Local Body Tax (LBT) and calling for a strike.

But help has come to them from the agitators, who have taken it upon themselves to collect funds from their peers and set up a community kitchen in the vicinity. The kitchen has been opening at 11.30 am for the last three weeks, serving free food to the labourers, till 4 pm.