Red Sun  -  Travels in Naxalite Country

Red Sun - Travels in Naxalite Country

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Author: Sudeep Chakravarti
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 411
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9780143066538

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In 1967, Naxalbari, a village in West Bengal, became the centre of a Mao- inspired militant peasant uprising guided by firebrand intellectuals. Today, Naxalism is no longer the Che Guevara-style revolution that it was. Spread across 1.5 of India’s 28 states. It is one of the world’s biggest, most sophisticated extreme-Left movements, and feeds off the misery and anger of the dispossessed. Since the late 1990s, hardly a week has passed without people dying in strikes and counter-strikes by the Maoists-interchangeably known as the Naxalites-and police and paramilitary forces.

In this brilliant and disturbing examination of the ‘Other India’, Sudeep Chakravarti combines political history, extensive interviews and individual case histories as he travels to the heart of Maoist Zones in the country: Chhattisgarh (home to the controversial state-sponsored Salwa Judum programme to contain Naxalism), Jharkhand, West Bengal, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh (where a serving chief minister was nearly killed in a landmine explosion triggered by the Naxalites). He meets Maoist leaders and sympathizers, policemen, bureaucrats, politicians, security analysts, development workers, farmers and tribals-people, big and small, who comprise the actors and the audience in this war being fought in jungles and impoverished villages across India.

What emerges is a sobering picture of a deeply divided society, and the dangers that lie ahead for India.