Complex sentence: The local bigwig JP (Ponvannan) treats the whole village almost like his bonded labourers, and he is irked by the new-found freedom that the villagers and their children seem to enjoy.
Split into simpler sentences: The local bigwig JP (Ponvannan) treats the whole village almost like his bonded labourers. And he is irked by the new-found freedom that the villagers and their children seem to enjoy.