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Rage, fear in India’s Azamgarh over land acquisition for airport

Villagers holding a protest march on January 26, India's Republic Day [Astha Savyasachi/Al Jazeera]

Azamgarh, India – Cradling her toddler in one arm, Arti Sharma adjusts her saree with another as she picks up the placard that says: “Zameen nahi denge, jaan bhi nahi denge [We will neither give our land nor our lives].”

It is a placard her husband Deepak Sharma had made, days before he succumbed to a heart attack at 31.

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