Bastar Needs You
Bastar. An abstract name of some strange place where there is Naxalism. And therefore a place to be avoided, to be dreaded and mostly ignored. Not a land of a […]
Naxalite?Maoist insurgency
Mr. Chidambaram’s war by Arundhati Roy – Part 5
Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 When the scale of money involved is what it is, the stakeholders are not always easy to identify. Between the CEOs in their
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Mr. Chidambaram’s war by Arundhati Roy – Part 4
Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 People who had come from the war zones, from Lalgarh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa, described the police repression, the arrests, the
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Mr. Chidambaram’s war by Arundhati Roy – Part 3
Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 The first move in that direction is the concerted campaign that has been orchestrated to shoehorn the myriad forms
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Mr. Chidambaram’s war by Arundhati Roy – Part 2
Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 Right now in central India, the Maoists’ guerrilla army is made up almost entirely of desperately poor
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Mr. Chidambaram’s war by Arundhati Roy – Part 1
An article by Arundhati Roy that I respect highly. Originally published in theOutlook Magazine. Republishing here so that more people read it. Also a kind of public apology for writing
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The Republic's abandoned kids – finally owned!
“Our republic cannot bear the stain of killing its children like this” ~ Indian Supreme Court Judge on possibility of extra-judicial killing of Maoist Azad. There is hope. This isn’t
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