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I am leaving tomorrow. How can mutton be cooked today? How can they withdraw money from the Party fund in advance? The Maoists hold a quick meeting and decide that they will talk to their bosses about it later, but today they have to give a farewell to their guest. When they gleefully inform me about the farewell feast, however, I disappoint them. I am vegetarian.

Almost a year later, in January 2015, when Narendra Modi equatedd Kejriwal with Naxals during the Delhi assembly poll campaign, the country's prime minister confirmed his inability or unwillingness to grasp an insurgent movement that has been raging in the country for the last five decades.

The textbook is in Devanagari script, but the language is Gondi.

While the government barely recognizes the need to communícate with the adivasis in their language, the Maoists print books for them in Gondi.

A compelling read!