Elections over, Nandigram back to its own self
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Synopsis At Nandigram bazar, those who had walked in rival rallies and voted for opposite sides rubbed shoulders on Saturday. While the campaign had rhetoric that appeared to polarize the people, the fissures weren’t visible.
(This story originally appeared in on Apr 03, 2021)After facing the glare of spotlights for over a month, people of Nandigram appeared to breathe easy on Friday and returned to normal life.
Three boys aged between seven and nine, played hide-and-seek near Boyal Maqtab Primary School that had been the scene of taut tension on Thursday as a group of Hindus and Muslims braced for a face-off and forced chief minister Mamata Banerjee to remain in the school’s corridor for two hours. Now, away from political pressure and the media glare, the men and women, who had been at each other’s throat till a day before, appeared to set aside their aggressive stance as they went about their daily live