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Book Review: Hello, Bastar

Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India’s Maoist Movement Rahul Pandita 2011 Westland pp. 202 Pandita’s writing on the Maoist movement in various parts of India details out the history of the movement. The narrative is replete with episodes of various comrades’ initiation into the Naxal movement.  In various episodes, lives of people involved in…

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Broken Republic

Name: Broken RepublicAuthor: Arundhati RoyNo. of Pages: 182Publisher: Penguin BooksYear of Publication: 2013 About the Book:The book presents four essays by Roy. All the essays are based on the Naxal movement in red zones in central India. All four essays vividly describe the landscape, the life and struggles of people in the tribal belt. The…