It has been seventeen years since the bloody farmland agitation changed the political landscape in West Bengal. This rural hamlet, which was once the cradle of the anti-land acquisition stir, is desperately craving for industrial development and employment opportunities.
Sukumar Jana's wife, Supriya, had left early morning on that fateful day to join the protests.
Emotions were running high then - the tulsi mancha at home and the family agricultural land of about an acre had to be protected. Unfortunately, she fell prey to the bullets.
Peace has now returned to Nandigram.
Jana's son now works with the Indian Railways in Haldia, courtesy of the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who was appointed the railway minister in 2009. But his loss is irreparable. "I never remarried," says Sukumar.
The one-acre plot he owns is single-crop, which is hardly remunerative these days.
It is not an isolated case. Jana and several others from his tribe are willing to sell their land if compensated adequately. And the importance of industrial development is not lost on any of them.
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