Hello Bastar

by Rahul Pandita

Naxalbari movement from where the word 'Naxalite'

It was a city drunk on power, a city from where a handful of people decided the fate of over a billion others, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, as messages painted on highways by the Border Roads Organisation would remind one.

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

Even as it sends missions to the moon and boasts of being a nuclear power, India has so far failed to ensure that nobody goes hungry. There have been cases where foodgrains were left out in the open to rot while the godowns of the state-run Food Corporation of India were rented out to liquor companies to store alcohol.

China by a peasants' army led by Mao Tse-tung.

Charu Mazumdar also believed that war was nothing but politics with bloodshed.

Communist leaders got together under the banner of the Andhra Mahasabha in 1946.

Caste is one major reason why Naxalism flourished in Bihar. And crushing poverty.