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Dying for a lake

"i am proud to die for the rights of the fisherfolk.' These were the last words Bacchanidhi Behera uttered before he succumbed to a police bullet in the firing in Orissa's Sarano village in Khurda district on the night of May 29-30.

Chilka Lake is Asia's largest brackishwater water body and the waters have for years been a cause of tension between the two rival groups

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