![]() ![]() It offers rare insight into the lives of Maoist guerillas and of the Adivasi tribals living in the Red zone.īased 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. The director-general of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is of the opinion that the killing of 22 security personnel, including seven of his commandos, in a Maoist ambush last week is not an intelligence and operational failure. ![]() ![]() 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. Pandita is the author of Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India’s Maoist movement. He has extensively reported from conflict zones ranging from Bastar to Baghdad. He is the co-author of the critically acclaimed book on insurgency: The Absent State. 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 India's biggest internal security threat. TRANQUEBAR PRESS HELLO, BASTAR Rahul Pandita is a senior special correspondent with the Openmagazine. ![]()
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