By the time most shops along Bandra’s busy SV Road begin pulling their shutters down, one lane along Jama Masjid, near Quresh Nagar, only starts getting brighter.

Rows of woven cane pendant lamps hang above the pavement like floating lanterns, throwing warm amber light onto passing buses, parked scooters, and pedestrians. Inside narrow roadside shops packed floor-to-ceiling with bamboo lamp frames, curved rattan shades, and unfinished lamps, workers crouch barefoot on the ground, weaving imported cane strips by hand while others heat thick rattan over open gas flames to bend them into circular frames.…