Hello Bastar

by Rahul Pandita

People would come out to rally for the rights of pet animals, and others would brand their underage maidservants with a hot iron.

In the womb of the land now referred to as India's Red Corridor lay hidden mineral resources worth thousands of billions of dollars. And this was also the land where India's poorest of the poor lived. And now, it was where perhaps India's bloodiest battle would be fought. The government had

cowboy doctrine

Either you are with us or against us.

Sometimes history acts like a housewife.

war was nothing but politics with bloodshed.

It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

wrath against a government that offered them speeches instead of food?'

their (labourers') perception of poverty as a matter of "fate" (naseeb)

has changed; now they often see it as a matter of injustice.'

In this part of the country, I think, there is hardly any difference between a mongrel and an Adivasi. Upon being kicked by the woman, the mongrel ran to the Maoists just as the Adivasis ran to them after being kicked by the State.