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Murshidabad violence: ‘What will I go back to? My home has been reduced to ash’
Shivansh Singh | Apr 16, 2025, 12:54 IST
What worried eight-year-old Namita Mondal on Tuesday was that she did not have a new dress, a Poila Baisakh ritual back home.
Unaware of why she and her family had crossed the Ganga in a boat from Dhuliyan on April 12, to take refuge at Baishnabnagar's Parlalpur High School campus in Malda, Namita said: "I have been wearing the same frock for the past three days. I have so many clothes at home. I was also supposed to get a new dress today. Are there no new dresses here?
Longing for home was also evident in the elders at the makeshift shelters. Saptami Mandal, carrying her eight-day-old baby in her lap, said: "How can we return now? Our house was burnt down. Once BSF leaves, there may be another attack. I want to go back, but until the situation improves, it is impossible.
Unaware of why she and her family had crossed the Ganga in a boat from Dhuliyan on April 12, to take refuge at Baishnabnagar's Parlalpur High School campus in Malda, Namita said: "I have been wearing the same frock for the past three days. I have so many clothes at home. I was also supposed to get a new dress today. Are there no new dresses here?
Longing for home was also evident in the elders at the makeshift shelters. Saptami Mandal, carrying her eight-day-old baby in her lap, said: "How can we return now? Our house was burnt down. Once BSF leaves, there may be another attack. I want to go back, but until the situation improves, it is impossible.