Goa, April 11 -- GAURESH SATTARKAR

Every morning, the women arrive before the sun turns cruel. Elderly included, they take their places outside the Parsekar Foods factory in Palaskat ta, Mollem, and wait - as they have, day after day, for the past nine days. It is the third time in three months that residents of this quiet village in Sanvordem constit uency have been forced onto the streets. The smell that drove them there, they say, never left. What began as a food processing unit has, according to villagers, quietly trans formed into something far more noxious - a rendering plant processing chicken waste into fertiliser, allegedly operating without valid permission since 2023. The result - a persistent, overpowering stench that residen...