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"Don't torture the poor people, we have been living for so many days sir, let it be" they cried.
Pramila Dixit & Neha who died in a fire in Kanpur Dehat, kept begging in front of authorities. Officials did not melt and turned deaf, demolished everything, house, temple and all.
Pramila Dixit & Neha who died in a fire in Kanpur Dehat, kept begging in front of authorities. Officials did not melt and turned deaf, demolished everything, house, temple and all.
This is Pramila Dixit of Kanpur Dehat | She and her daughter Neha Dixit burned to ashes last evening. When she was alive, she was running to the authorities in hope of getting justice after being razed to the ground by Lekhpal. Listen to what she was saying 🥲
Mother and daughter threatened to set themselves on fire. Later, while protesting they locked themselves inside the hut. After a while, a fire broke out inside the hut, and as a result, the woman and her daughter were burnt alive.
First pit-stop on my #ExploreUP journey, Bhitargaon in #Kanpurdehat. Amidst squalor, in a village seemingly over-run by a combo of buffaloes & pigs, stands what may be north India's oldest existing temple. This brick temple dedicated to Vishnu dates to Gupta period, 6th century. 
#ExploreUP: Having read abt a Lodi-era tomb at #Kalpi, #Jalaun dist, I expected it to be in line with the octagonal Lodi-Sur era tombs elsewhere in India. It turned out to be quite different. Locals call it the Chaurasi (84) gumbad.
#ExploreUP: The tomb @ #Kalpi, was described as that of a 'Lodi Badshah'. Aware that of the three Lodi rulers, two buried in Delhi & third in #Panipat, was puzzled abt the Kalpi person. Turns out to be a brother of Ibrahim named Jalaluddin who propped himself as ruler for a while
