A day before eviction date, emotions ran high at the compound in the afternoon as MLAs from various parties paid a visit. There were tears, screams and high-decibel disenchantment. In a fit of rage, women blamed both politicians and the press. "We don't want your pity," a lady in a white dupatta screamed at the TV cameras in front while wiping her tears. "What have you done for us? Why don't you give us all a vial of poison each," shouted the resident, who even felt the media was editing their emotions. "Are you all here to witness a mass murder?" a male resident asked the cameras.
Here, seated in plastic chairs in the front, some women wept silently. Among them was a pensioner who cannot afford rent and Meera Motiani, a single mother whose kohl-laden eyes turned moist and bloodshot as she showered abuses over the system. "It is worse than Kasab as it (the system) has been killing us since eight months now," said Motiani.
The stage was full of youngsters in T-shirts that said Save Campa Cola Compound, volunteers for what they considered a lost cause by evening. "All our lives, we voted for the Congress. But youths such as my daughter who has just turned 18 don't want to vote anymore," said a resident, who did not wish to be named.
Inside the buildings, many houses boasted brown boxes bearing names written in black markers but some are not ready to give in easily. "We won't leave. Where will we go?" asks Kavisha Shah (23), a lawyer, whose house is on the sixth floor. "Who will be ready to host a family of four and for how long?" asks Kavisha.
Nikhil Shah, on the other hand, recalls a neighbour who was so traumatised by the seven-month ordeal that one fine day he took a hammer and started breaking stuff in his own home. "Why are we being treated like criminals when we have followed all the procedures?" asks Shah. "There are 450 cops manning the area. Are we terrorists or something?"
The lofty promises of MLAs who use words like "assure" have made them cynical about justice. "Perhaps we were taken for granted because we carried out a civilised protest," says Sandeep Gupta, whose family has packed all its stuff. However, residents such as Meera Motiani, who even has a daughter who has just joined a management course, say they "will go down with the house".
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