We exchanged looks across the street, from one row to the other; they smiled and said, ‘Could not stay home’. Commuters, stranded by the endless human stream, often joined in. Someone shouted from an immobilized tram, ‘March on, we are with you’. Flower petals came raining down on the marchers from an old house near Wellington Square.
Moinak Biswas narrates a first-person account from Dhikkar Michhil [condemnation rally] in Kolkata, protesting the killings in Nandigram. As Peter who sent in the tip said, there is still hope for this country.
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