Busy traffic of trucks and mini-trucks loading and unloading textile bales and finished goods keeps Surat’s Ring Road abuzz. The oldest among the textile markets here is the Surat Textile Market (STM), inaugurated on Vijaya Dashami in October 1972 by Morarji Desai, the MP who went on to become the prime minister. Harbanslal Arora, 65, the STM’s acting president who is from Sonepat in Haryana and opened his shop in 1978, recalls how Desai had warned in his speech that the textile business would soon be dominated by “outsiders”. He…