One generation is gone, another is about to go and a third one is growing up trying to build a home. But the eight-decade-long endeavour of the Paharias of Birajpur village in Jharkhand is yet to bear fruit. The attempts have been thwarted first by the landlords who kept them in bondage till about two decades back, then by the local officials who promised them a concrete roof under the Indira Awas Yojna and who later changed their mind, and now by the Railways that is laying a track through the piece of land holding the tribals' shacks. The time warp the Paharia tribals of Birajpur are caught in has refused to break even over eight decades after they were uprooted from their ancestral village in the hills of Santhal Pargana and brought here as bonded labourers by a local Zamindar.