CHENNAI: Every time someone in Pureet Kata's village said they were heading to Kantabanji railway station, he felt a sense of dread and hope. Trepidation, because many of the faces that left he never saw again, and anticipation because the promises of a better life may be true. With its near-deserted platform, there is little to distinguish the west Odisha railway station from other small town stations. But when 28-year-old Pureet and his wife landed there on a November evening in 2014, it was packed with people. All of them were waiting for the train that would...
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