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The film was announced in June 2023, along with the title of the film, it's based on the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency in the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh and the April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada. [7] Bastar was theatrically released on 15 March 2024. [8] The film received negative reviews from critics and was a major box office bomb. [9]
Bastar is a hilly district in Chhattisgarh which is full of dense forests and is part of India's 'red corridor', a nickname for the regions most affected by the Maoist insurgency.
His reporting had uncovered alleged irregularities in a £11.8m road project in the Bastar region, a hotbed of Maoist insurgency, prompting a government inquiry.
The New Peace Process is an initiative of a conglomerate of tribal and non-government support groups and individuals, [1] with the aim of bringing a negotiated settlement to the 50-year-old Maoist insurgency in Central India. [2] Bastar Dialogues are a series of activities that started in mid 2018 by the New Peace Process to initiate a dialogue ...
He is also known as Hidmalu alias Santosh and is the face of Maoist in Bastar. After completion of education up to class 10, he joined the Party and became a master strategist of military operation and guerrilla warfare. [4] [5] Hidma was arrested in 2016 along with six other alleged naxals, at the time he was considered a low-level participant ...
Let's call him Vasu: With Maoists in Chhattisgarh, by Shubhranshu Choudhary, Penguin, 2012; The Burning Forest: India's War in Bastar, by Nandini Sundar, Juggernaut Press, 2016; The Adivasis of Chhattisgarh: Victims of the Naxalite Movement and Salwa Judum Campaign, by Asian Centre for Human Rights. Published by Asian Centre for Human Rights, 2006.
He represented the Dantewada constituency. The congress again lost the 2008 assembly elections when BJP swept 10 out of the 11 seats in Bastar. [9] He had secured 158,520 votes (35.19%). In the region, he was known as "Bastar Tiger"-for making a tough stand against the regional Maoist insurgency. [7] [10] [11]
Counter-Maoist operations are diversified. BSF is deployed in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh, where Naxal strength is comparatively thinner than that of other parts of Bastar region. At present total 15 battalions of BSF are stationed in different parts of Kanker district to combat the Naxal.