Extract from featured article by Rahnuma Ahmed: 'You cannot eat
coal': resistance in Phulbari
Zaeed and Farzana's film, �The Blood-Soaked Banner of Phulbari', was
released soon after the killings in 2006. I watch the beginning
sequence. A crowd of men stand at the long-distance bus stand in
Phulbari town, they talk to each other and to the film crew. �We are
poor people,' says a man, probably in his late-thirties. �If I lose
my home, how will I earn a living? What use will be the coalmine?'
Who will it benefit?
I return to clips from their uncut footage. A younger woman is
sitting in her courtyard, �No, I don't have a husband, I live with my
mother, I work with her. In the same place. If the coalmine comes,
we, that is, us mothers-and-daughters, where will we go? We will be
scattered from our relatives, we will lose our ties.'
�Where will we go?' This question is repeatedly raised by villagers,
by both men and women, old and young, by farmers, day-labourers,
petty businessmen, schoolchildren, college-going youths, both
Bengalis and adivasis, who belong to Santal, Oraon, Pahan, Mahali and
Munda communities. By Hindus and Muslims.
Full article at: http://shahidul.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/
Earlier article that deals with Phulbari:
http://shahidul.wordpress.com/2006/09/04/
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