Rage, fear in India’s Azamgarh over land acquisition for airport. Months-old protest becomes a ‘fight for survival’ as mainly marginalised residents of eight villages resist government’s move.

India News: To an outsider, the mofussil town of Azamgarh, 272km east of Lucknow, does offer a curious study in contrast.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday claimed that India would have gained Independence from the British in 1857 had there been expressways between Azamgarh and Patna back then. “The ...