Land and the Road to Dignity

December 30, 2023 09:00 am

“I have no land; I have no home to call my own. I am waiting to die, and God knows if the house owner will allow my community to perform my last rite according to our tradition. I lived fearfully all my life and will die fearfully. I have never wanted a home so badly as I do now,” Sita Badi (name changed) from Tulasipur Dang exclaimed as she expressed the pain of dying in someone else’s home.