Bangla → English transcript

Day after day he would call me to the party office

and always say,“ Even if a thousand cops come, they can’t do anything to me.”

After that he would say things like that, he would always say,“ I will rape you.

Then I will bring the police, have you taken away and I will lick you.”

I mean, sir, hasn’t he said this?

I mean, how can I say all this outside? My pillow is still that,

my he used to get the boys from my club to get hard and do all this for so long.

But to us he is Chanchal Khara.

After that, at that night at twelve thirty, I went to the party office many times.

I would go there and say that“ Dada is saying all this,

and right next to it it is happening,

it is happening that my mother— I mean,

her idol— beside it there was a chair,

he would sit there and say that using my name,

in such language in Tamluk town you will not abuse people.

In whose name will you abuse people? He would talk like that.

Then he said, as for land, let the land be however each person can manage,

but my daughter should always, I mean… When we went into town,

the boys would say it. But they… I mean,

they had his hand over their heads.

Otherwise they would never have had so much courage.

No. They are still roaming around, I have filed an FIR, but nothing is happening.

Sandeep is still… They caught him today, I heard they caught him.

Then they would say,“ You

have only one daughter, why are you so greedy for land, Doctorbabu?”

“ Why did you buy that land in front?

You have only one daughter, what will you do with all this?”

In Tamluk town, was there a syndicate rule running things? There was a

syndicate rule. Everyone, out of fear, could not say anything,

could not open their mouths. I think only we spoke up. I mean, so… I mean,

how do I say it, my back was to the wall…

I have sent my daughter very far away, now I have no fear left.

My back is completely against the wall now.

I mean, up to now I only have that one little dog, if it had not come,

no one could have saved me. That saved my life. Day after day of abuse,

day after day…

Abhoya was raped and killed that day. But me, for days

and days I was raped.

Hearing it over and over, I mean, I… I mean I became a living corpse.

Now I have to take four sleeping pills, my hands and feet shake. After that I, C. S.

Mukherjee, in Kolkata,

you know, the famous psychologist, I have to see him. Your name? I am Nandini Manna,

a resident of Darinda, Ward number twenty.