Hello Bastar

Hello Bastar PDF Author: Rahul Pandita
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9354927890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Book Description
With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of how a handful of men and women, who believed in the idea of revolution, entered Bastar in Central India in 1980 and created a powerful movement that New Delhi now terms as India's biggest internal security threat. It traces the circumstances due to which the Maoist movement entrenched itself in about 10 states of India, carrying out deadly attacks against the Indian establishment in the name of the poor and the marginalised. It offers rare insight into the lives of Maoist guerillas and also of the Adivasi tribals living in the Red zone. Based on extensive on-ground reportage and exhaustive interviews with Maoist leaders including their supreme commander Ganapathi, Kobad Ghandy and others who are jailed or have been killed in police encounters, this book is a combination of firsthand storytelling and intrepid analysis.

Hello Bastar

Hello Bastar PDF Author: Rahul Pandita
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9354927890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Book Description
With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of how a handful of men and women, who believed in the idea of revolution, entered Bastar in Central India in 1980 and created a powerful movement that New Delhi now terms as India's biggest internal security threat. It traces the circumstances due to which the Maoist movement entrenched itself in about 10 states of India, carrying out deadly attacks against the Indian establishment in the name of the poor and the marginalised. It offers rare insight into the lives of Maoist guerillas and also of the Adivasi tribals living in the Red zone. Based on extensive on-ground reportage and exhaustive interviews with Maoist leaders including their supreme commander Ganapathi, Kobad Ghandy and others who are jailed or have been killed in police encounters, this book is a combination of firsthand storytelling and intrepid analysis.

Hello Bastar

Hello Bastar PDF Author: Pandita, Rahul
Publisher: Tranquebar Press
ISBN: 9789380658346
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Book Description
Hello Bastar is the inside story of the current Maoist movement in India

The Burning Forest

The Burning Forest PDF Author: Nandini Sandar
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178873145X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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An empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, and homes and communities destroyed Over the past decade, the heavily forested, mineral-rich region of Bastar in central India has emerged as one of the most militarized sites in the country. The government calls the Maoist insurgency the “biggest security threat” to India. In 2005, a state-sponsored vigilante movement, the Salwa Judum, burned hundreds of villages, driving their inhabitants into state-controlled camps, drawing on counterinsurgency techniques developed in Malaysia, Vietnam and elsewhere. Apart from rapes and killings, hundreds of “surrendered” Maoist sympathizers were conscripted as auxiliaries. The conflict continues to this day, taking a toll on the lives of civilians, security forces and Maoist cadres. In 2007, Sundar and others took the Indian government to the Supreme Court over the human rights violations arising out of the conflict. In a landmark judgment in 2011 the court banned state support for vigilantism. The Burning Forest describes this brutal war in the heart of India, and what it tells us about the courts, media and politics of the country. The result is a fascinating critical account of Indian democracy.

Our Moon Has Blood Clots

Our Moon Has Blood Clots PDF Author: Rahul Pandita
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184003900
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Book Description
Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family. They were Kashmiri Pandits-the Hindu minority within a Muslim-majority Kashmir that was by 1990 becoming increasingly agitated with the cries of 'Azaadi' from India. Our Moon Has Blood Clots is the story of Kashmir, in which hundreds of thousands of Pandits were tortured, killed and forced to leave their homes by Islamist militants, and forced to spend the rest of their lives in exile in their own country. Pandita has written a deeply personal, powerful and unforgettable story of history, home and loss.

The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur

The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur PDF Author: Rahul Pandita
Publisher: Juggernaut Publications India
ISBN: 9789353451936
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The sinister roots of the strike, they would discover, are several decades deep and can be traced to one man - Masood Azhar - and the empire of terror he created in Kashmir.

Children and Violence

Children and Violence PDF Author: Bina D'Costa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107117240
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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Book Description
Explores the conceptualisation of childhood in South Asia and comments on the shift from welfare to the protection of children's rights in the region.

Let's Call Him Vasu

Let's Call Him Vasu PDF Author: Shubhranshu Choudhary
Publisher: Penguin Enterprise
ISBN: 9780143067573
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
An outcome of seven years spent with hundreds of Maoists, this book is a passionate quest to find out what ails the failing heart of India.

The Shooting Star

The Shooting Star PDF Author: Shivya Nath
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9353052653
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Book Description
Shivya Nath quit her corporate job at age twenty-three to travel the world. She gave up her home and the need for a permanent address, sold most of her possessions and embarked on a nomadic journey that has taken her everywhere from remote Himalayan villages to the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador. Along the way, she lived with an indigenous Mayan community in Guatemala, hiked alone in the Ecuadorian Andes, got mugged in Costa Rica, swam across the border from Costa Rica to Panama, slept under a meteor shower in the cracked salt desert of Gujarat and learnt to conquer her deepest fears. With its vivid descriptions, cinematic landscapes, moving encounters and uplifting adventures, The Shooting Star is a travel memoir that maps not just the world but the human spirit.

Bastar Dispatches

Bastar Dispatches PDF Author: Narendra
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9353020336
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Book Description
Abujhmad in the deep interiors of Bastar is inhabited by the Abujhmadias, a primitive hunter-gatherer tribe whom Verrier Elwin has called the Hill Murias. Abujhmad stands today as one of the few mirrors left the world over wherein modernity can view itself - its calamities and collapses. Abujhmad asks no questions of itself nor provides answers; neither are there searches, quests or creation of utopias, ideas and ideologies, elaborate languages, agricultures, technologies and endeavours.Based on the author's over thirty years of association with Abujhmad (he is probably the first outsider to live there) and its contiguous areas in the Bastar division of Chhattisgarh, Bastar Dispatches brings out how forests and the wilds, humans and animals, distances, spaces and the skies, the knowns and unknowns together make up societies and intimacies. There is a nebulousness, an 'undefined' to Abujhmad's ways. Written in what may be called the Adivasi sensibility of nurturing the tentative, the book provides a compelling narrative of a people at peace with themselves and nature, their dialect, their festivities, their delightful interactions.

Red Sun

Red Sun PDF Author: Sudeep Chakravarti
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184758049
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Spread over fifteen of the country’s twenty-eight states, India’s Maoist movement is now one of the world’s biggest and most sophisticated extreme-left movements. Hardly a week passes without people dying in strikes and counter-strikes by the Maoists—interchangeably known as the Naxalites—and the police and paramilitary forces. In this brilliant and sobering examination of the ‘Other India’, Sudeep Chakravarti combines reportage, political analysis and individual case histories as he takes us to the heart of Maoist zones in the country—areas of extreme destitution, bad governance and perpetual war.