OUR peasant organisation here has been baptised amidst fierce attacks by the landlords. The awakening began with peasant youths rising against social oppression. In face of landlords' attacks, the mass organisation forged an anti-repression front with some other likeminded democratic organisation. The front staged a massive 3,000-strong demonstration against feudal highhandedness.

The landlords retaliated in an extremely barbarous fashion. They forcibly entered the house of a teacher (of middle-peasant status) at the dead of night with the avowed aim to finish him off. But as he was not there, they cruelly raped his wife and daughter. The mass organisation orga­nised a demonstration in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office in protest against this ghastly crime.