Tale of a highway. This is what a Rs.11,000 cr road looks like, with the blood of farmers on it THE TAJ Expressway, now known as the Yamuna Expressway, certainly lives up to its first name for its ambition and grandeur. Connecting Delhi with Agra, the 165 km, eight-lane highway is a work of modern engineering, which passes through more than 1,880 villages in Uttar Pradesh, and in the process, is changing the lives of villagers forever. The tractors that used to plough the 2,400 hectares of agricultural land on either side of the highway are to be replaced by bulldozers and crushers. This road to progress is paved with the muffled voices of thousands of villagers. And staining the underpass of this highway is the blood of three people who were killed and 25 who were injured on 14 August when police opened fire on the villagers who were protesting the government