Hello Bastar

by Rahul Pandita

took the government two years to realise this. Speaking at a conference of state chief ministers in New Delhi in 1969, the then Union home minister Y.B. Chavan warned that the Green Revolution may cease to remain green if it were not accompanied by measures for social justice.

Like his hero, Charu Mazumdar also believed that war was nothing but politics with bloodshed.

Since the Nizam had banned Communist parties, the Communist leaders got together under the banner of the Andhra Mahasabha in 1946.

fields. By mid 1948, about one-sixth of the Telangana region had come under the control of Communist guerillas. In 1948, the Indian state sent its army to tackle the Nizam and overthrow him. Hyderabad was made a part of the Indian dominion.

Harold Briggs, the British director of operations against Communists in what was then Malaya in the '50s. The army burnt down the tribal hamlets and herded the people into internment camps.

In December 1989, the Congress returned to power in the state. Dr M. Chenna Reddy rose to power after doing what NTR did in 1982-83: calling Naxalites patriotic.

This was the time when a splinter group of Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) established contact with the PWG. Some of the cadres were trained by the LTTE rebels in guerilla warfare. And