If Singur in Hooghly was the first flashpoint, Nandigram was the second, where Bengal's peasants resisted eviction from their lands. They fought for their right to their land, faced wide-spread torture and rape at the hands of the ruling party's goons. Finally, Nandigram has been 'recaptured' by the ruling party, or so it seems for the time being, by evicting the peasants at gunpoint with the state machinery allowing the marauders a free run. But Nandigram is ...
