Diamond Traders Of Hoveniersstraat

Pallavi Aiyar's post in Business Standard (June 27, 2009) on Indian diamond traders and the Antwerp diamond market was interesting. The Mehtas and Shahs, who are the 21st century high priests of Hoveniersstraat, control up to 70 per cent of Antwerp’s diamond trade today, a figure that was associated with the Jews only a few decades ago. Sign of the times, really.