I don’t go on the Ajit website at all. It’s the most read Punajbi newspaper in the world. Majority of the older Punajbis who grew up reading the paper there use the internet solely for reading news from their website. The main news was from Bihar state where a family was locked in a room and 6 members were burnt to death. Why? Over a buffalo! A buffalo is the cow equivalent in India, a source of milk. While it may sound like it’s no big deal, for most poor families it’s a prized possession, they’re pretty expensive too. But this?:
A guy named Vajinder Mahati accused Jagat Rai of stealing his milk buffalo and had him arrested. Rai asked Mahati to withdraw the charges against him otherwise he’d have to pay.
And pay he did. Rai had just got out on bail and at 1:00am he led a group of armed men to Mahati’s residence and set the place ablaze locking the doors from the outside. His wife and 5 young children died while Mahati’s in serious condition fighting for his life.
If this is any indication about how people in Bihar think and just general conditions there even thinking about going to India seems scary. I didn’t think anyone would do something like this in any circumstance. And for something so small. Another reason to think once, twice better yet thrice before doing something.
The general impression Punjabi’s have about people from poor states in India is all they care about is money; even a small amount, they’d kill someone over even 50rupees(that’s about $1 dollar) it doesn’t seem that farfetched anymore.
What did anyone get out of this? One guys whole family’s destroyed, the others on the loose trying to avoid capture. He might die too, they still have the death penalty there.
Click here for the story it's in Punajbi.
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