The first time Amina Khatun, a woman in her 70s, lost her home, her homestead and the rice in her field, was 53 years ago when the river Brahmaputra took an unexpected turn during the monsoon and washed away thousands of hectares of land in Assam.
The second time she lost everything was during a freezing cold winter morning on December 19 when bulldozers ran over 47 houses in Haidubi forest area of Nagaon district. This time it was the Assam government which wanted Khatun and over 200 others to leave the land that they have been residing on for decades near the birthplace of Vaishnav saint Sankardeva.
