Young Namita Mondal, displaced from Dhuliyan, yearns for a new Poila Baisakh dress while seeking refuge in Malda. Like others, she and her family fled after violence, their homes reduced to ashes. Uncertainty looms as they grapple with the impossibility of returning, their lives disrupted and futures uncertain, awaiting a resolution amidst political tensions.
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