my daughter saw how the men picked up her cycle and smashed it at a car thakur a resident of 621b hazra road slum was furious as fort oasis was inaccessible even ahead of pujas when subscription is collected pointing to the major disparity in class living roy said the vandals had taken the death of the boy as an opportunity to vent out their anger on the upper class the slums at 621b hazra road tetultala bustee 14 garcha road and deodar street bustee have been existing for several decades with several thousands making a living out of small shops working as garage mechanics or domestic helps drivers and cleaners in posh localities of ballygunge and bhowanipore this feeling of inequality and class divide is not restricted to panditya road if anyone residing in the complex was oblivious of the hatred earlier sundays mayhem has ensu red there is no doubt now it has happened in the near past vineeta daga said seeing some men trying to climb up to the upper floors she asked the liftman to switch off the elevators power supply psychiatrist and psycho analyst siladitya ray too felt the divide between the urban rich and poor was widening leading to more conflicts according to psychologists the twostoried mansions of the rich in the past posed a lesser psychological threat to the slumdwellers who now felt intimidated by the 2024 storied ivory towers while middleincome families pay up the rich dont it happened on sunday is more like an outburst of suppressed anger born out of dispossession north kolkata however has seen fewer such incidents because rich and poor neighbourhoods have grown up together organically my father had a shop and my brother repaired bikes they are snobs and we hate them he said south kolkata sees more such incidents because the growth has been unequal now my father is dead and my mother has to work as a domestic help said chottu shaw a resident of tetultala bustee who had accompanied the men on the rampage on sunday akhilesh although north kolkata has witnessed a rise in highrises of late even then the residents have not dissociated from the community feeling north kolkata is famous for zerologic anger at inequality builds up and it finds vent during incidents like these they demolished our shops and constructed the complex she is still in a trauma said sreeti agarwal before dispossession of not only the land in the neighbourhood but also the daytoday livelihood it can happen again sociologists and psychologists believe the attack was more than just a reflex action to the death the naming of the highrise standing tall amid slums with oasis in it was enough to sow the seed of resentment among localsit changing demography the difference in lifestyle and aspiration have led to a conflict between the new upwardly mobile population and older settlers like the one the city witnessed at panditya road on sunday when a group of