Nandigram (WB), November 06: Eleven years after she got married, Sushma Maity of Southkhali Jalpai village in Nandigram is today neither a wife nor a widow.
Her husband, Bhagirath Maity, went missing on November 10 two years ago when goons attacked a rally brought out in protest against farmland acquisition for Special Economic Zone at Gokulnagar in Nandigram.
Bhagirath is one of the twelve persons officially reported missing since trouble began in Nandigram two years ago.
“I wear vermilion on the parting of hair and conch bangles on my wrists in the hope that my husband is alive,” says Sushma who has been living in a dilapidated mud house since her husband’s disappearance nearly two years ago.
Vermilion and conch bangles are marks of a married Bengali Hindu woman who stop sporting them after her husband’s death.
–PTI