"I have seen my parents, grandpa, grandma, other relatives and friends dying here. I had also seen my sons and grandsons getting married and becoming fathers. So many strong memories are rooted here," 78 years old, Asrin Psaart, said in a chocking voice and tearful eyes.
Such outpouring of emotions came just after Moulvibazar district administration had issued a notice to Khasi community to move from their ancestral home and hearth, Nahar Punji of Sreemangal upazila in Moulvibazar district.
On May 30 in 2016 a notice record No. 05.46.5800.015.100.03.15-350(3) directed the Khasi people to leave Nahar Punji within June 12 in 2016.
The notice alleged that Khasi people have been unlawfully farming pan (betel leaf) by illegally occupying government land.
The notice says that if they fail to leave possession of the land or refused to do so, then Deputy Commissioner of Moulvibazar district appointed executive magistrate in presence of police force will evict them from the area and will take possession of the land.
Local ethnic leaders, on condition of anonymity, alleged that the main objective of the government's move is to grab the land of the local indigenous people taking advantage of the loopholes in the Forest Act of 1927.
Paval Partha, a researcher on Indigenous people, said that such step is nothing but discriminatory on the part of the state authority.
"Before we have had High Court verdict on cutting down 40,000 trees in our area which is against Mother Nature and our community," he added.
Khasi people have been living in this land for ages and have been cultivating betel leaf by traditional methods.
Their livelihood depends totally on betel leaf cultivation. But this eviction notice will adversely impact their life and culture.
Elaborating more as a researcher, he said that they started living there before Nahar Tea Estate was set up. The owner of Nahar Tea Estate took the lease of the land from government and set up the tea estate near the Nahar Khasi Punji.
But recently with the intention to expand the tea estate, authority are conspiring to evict the indigenous Khasi people to grab their land.
There are more than 700 indigenous Khasi and Garo families living in bordering Nahar-1 Khasi Punji, a land measuring 200 acres and Nahar-2 Khasi Punji, some 250 acres, for decades. Now they are passing everyday in fear of eviction.
The Khasia head Dibarmin Poham, said that plenty of conspiracy have been plotted to evict Khasia community, the construction of two houses at Aslom Punji (also known as Nahar Punji 1) under Sreemangal Upazila on May 30 in 2014, led to an attack and counter-attack between the workers of Nahar Tea Garden and Khasia people which left one people killed and 10 others injured.
"It was an attempt to evict Khasia community by accusing us as the murderers of the worker," he said.
Shakti Pada Tripura, Organizing Secretary of Bangladesh Indigenous People's Forum, said that the government should take necessary steps to provide permanent settlement to Khasia people on their ancestral land for ensuring their traditional livelihood.
On February 15 in 2016, the Forest Department of Environment and Forest Ministry issued a gazette declaring 9,145 acres of land in Madhupur Garh,  home to Garo, Barman, Koch and Dalu indigenous people, as reserved forest under the Forest Act, 1927 (At XVI of 1927).
This move of the government would adversely affect more than 15,000 forest-dependent indigenous peoples living in the area for generations.