A road set free

The residents of Bamni were fed up with the constant feud between two farmers in their village. Their quarrels, which often came to fisticuffs, went on day and night, at home and in the farms, for years. Occasionally their neighbours had to rush them to a doctor after they had injured each other. But in February, the hostility disappeared like a whiff of smoke after the road passing between their fields, encroached for farming, was cleared. “They have forgotten their legal battle over the encroached area and are beginning to remember that their wives are first cousins,” says Sachin Bandapalle, a farmer of the village, with a chuckle.