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Maoist disruption of the non-violent Human Shields movement in Chhattisgarh
[We are posting below a statement issued by some of us on the Maoist threats and intimidation in Chhattisgarh and its most recent manifestation in relation to the human shields programme of the Vanvasi...
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Complicating the ‘Naxalite’ debate
(An edited version of this piece appeared as the cover story in Himal Southasian in December 2007. The report is based on travels across Andhra to Bihar in October of the same year. At a time when most...
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A Journey Into the Dark: Arati Chokshi
This is a Guest Post by ARATI CHOKSHI. [Chhattisgarh and Dantewada have been in the news for quite some time now, as matters have reached a climax with the state on its anti-Maoist offensive after the...
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The Plot thickens: more petitioners show up
The Gompad case gets murkier. Gachanpalli is another village mentioned in the same case I have been writing about for some time now. I visited the village this week to find a similar pattern where...
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School’s Out in Chhattisgarh, (But the Force is in!)
School’s out! In Kerlapal, Dantewada, battle-weary soldiers of the B Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force peer over barbed-wire fences as skinny schoolboys in sky-blue...
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Maoists issue a statement, the media plays it down
The CPI (Maoist) has issued a statement after the killing of the CRPF men in Dantewada. You would imagine that the statement should be all over the media. If you Google you will find it here and there,...
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The Maoist Killings Once Again
The news of killing of more than 40 people travelling in a bus blown by a blast in Dantewada is only a new chapter in the book of brutalities that is being scripted in Chhatisgarh and other parts...
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Death of villager mired in controversy
Sukma: Chhattisgarh police confirmed the death of Mediyum Bandhi, a 27 year old adivasi from Aitpal village, in the Sukma police station in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district. Police claim they shot...
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Mukram slips into a vortex of violence
Mukram: Rumours swirling around Mukram suggest that this adivasi village in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district may soon be abandoned. “There is talk of going to Orissa or Andhra [Pradesh],” said a...
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Mukram violence worsens; adivasi girls allege rape
Two sisters live in a clearing in the forest about 10 km beyond the abandoned houses and empty yards of Mukram village in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district. A third young girl cowers in the courtyard...
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Dear Chattisgarh Police, Are You Mad?
Javed Iqbal of The New Indian Express on being targeted by the Chattisgarh Police as being on the side of the Maoists: A High Court lawyer from Mumbai was in Dantewada a few days ago and had gone to...
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What if man dies in the forest, and no one is around to see it?
Last week, the Chhattisgarh police were caught in an extraordinary encounter in the forests of Dantewada. The encounter was interesting not just in the event itself, but also in the Police’s attempts...
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The afterlife of a massacre
I just finished a long essay for the cover of the May 2011 issue of Caravan magazine. In “At the Bloody Crossroads”, I plot the fate of the village of Tarmetla in the course of a year of...
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How Essar, Teamwork Productions and the Chhattisgarh government changed the...
Any moment now I expect India’s litfest mafiosi to describe this article on the ‘Essar Kahani Utsav’ by Akshay Pathak as an ‘attack on free speech’: Money was not the only thing coloured there. Long...
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Evicting the Gandhians: Justin Podur interviews Himanshu Kumar
Himanshu Kumar is a Gandhian activist who, together with his wife, ran the Vanvasi Chetana Ashram in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh for 22 years. He learned the local adivasi language (Gondi) and worked...
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