The Continuing Tragedy of the Adivasi’s, The Hindu

In the summer of 2006, I had a long conversation with Mahendra Karma, the Chhattisgarh Congress leader who was killed in a terror attack by the Naxalites last week. I was not alone—with me were five other members of a citizens’ group studying the tragic fallout of the civil war in the state’s Dantewada district. This war pitted the Naxalites on the one side against a vigilante army promoted by Mr Karma on the other. In a strange, not to say bizarre, example of bipartisan co-operation, the vig...