When women nearly tonsured their heads

Nagpur: Two days after over 300 men of Shivangaon village tonsured their heads to protest against the cargo hub project, even the womenfolk came forth to have their heads shaven on Wednesday.
A group of around 40 persons led by a 16-year-old college student Shrutika Ambhore gathered at the square at around 8.30 am to tonsure their heads. They dropped the idea after being convinced by the village elders. Baba Dawre of Cargo-ceiling Anyaya Sangarsha Samiti also mediated to stop the women, saying this would be a matter of disgrace for the entire village.
Shrutika and her sister Rasika have been typically affected by the project, probably and happened to be most agitated. Rasika, the elder one, is a science graduate.
"I had appeared for an interview for the post of a ground duty staff in Kingfisher Airlines, but I was rejected on the ground that I was too nervous," she says. Rasika feels the well-dressed city girls, who undertook training from various institutions, were preferred over her.
Her sister, Shrutika, who will be appearing for HSC examinations, aspires to become an innovative farmer. However, she fears that she would be left with no land due to the take-over.
Her father Bapu Ambhore says the family originally had 12.5 acres of land of which four acres were taken away by the IAF while another four acres were reserved for the cargo hub project, leaving hardly four acres with them.
31/05/07 Ranjit Deshmukh & Shishir Arya/Times of India

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