Ram Singh, a venerable former sarpanch of Ullawas village, looks around unceasingly, boiling with despair as the void stares back at him. Like Singh, every face in the village is contested by many feelings at once — from agony to anger, staring straight at their face an uncertain future.

Ullawas has been home to over 100 families, who took pride in tilling their farmland to earn their living. It is now on the verge of losing livelihood to the frenzied urbanisation plans of the Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Haryana government.