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It was a setup we were fooled,

the coal mine that ate an Indian village by Uncle Palliwal.

In a lined notebook, Pauline Arth Singh are more,

a lean 28-year-old man wearing a blue shirt

and matching baseball cap drew a map of his village.

He pointed his pen at the middle to mark the temple

where the village deity had lived.

To the west, he noted a settlement of more than 200 houses,

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