Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Served an eviction notice, residents of the slum behind Manas Bhawan at Shyamla Hills are having a bleak Diwali this year, living in fear of their homes being razed by the administration.

A poster hanging on the narrow entrance lane names the locality as ‘Adiwasi Mohalla’. A series of posters put up at each home — demanding justice, pleas to let them live in their small homes — can be spotted as one enters the locality.

The locality is home to over 27 families, the majority of them belonging to tribal communities.

While the men are daily wage workers, the women work in nearby bungalows to earn a living.

Every year, the colony would light up with colourful decorations and children’s laughter. But this Diwali, the walls are covered not with lamps but with protes

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