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Pandita is the author of three best-selling and critically-acclaimed books: "Our Moon has Blood Clots: A memoir of a lost home in Kashmir" (Penguin Random House, 2013); "Hello, Bastar: The untold story of India's Maoist movement" (Westland, 2011), and "The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur: How the Pulwama case was cracked (Juggernaut, 2021).
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]
The book covers her time in 2010 spent living with Naxalite communist guerillas deep within the forests of rural Chhattisgarh. [1] She argues that India's counter-insurgency, known as Operation Green Hunt , is a front for mining corporations to clear away tribal people, and to make profits exploit India's natural resources.
Bastar (Lok Sabha constituency), a parliamentary constituency in Chhattisgarh state in central India; Bastar (Vidhan Sabha constituency), a state assembly constituency within the Parliamentary constituency; Bastar rebellion, rebellion in colonial India; Bastar: The Naxal Story, a 2024 Indian film about the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency in Bastar ...
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]
The Maoists had structured "medical units" in the villages of Bastar, [67] and the CPI (Maoist) operates "mobile medical units." [53]: 101 Rahul Pandita writes: "In the field of health as well, the Maoists often fill in large gaps left by the state. Their mobile medical units cover large distances to offer primary health care to tribals....
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. B. ... (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Books about Maoist China" The following 11 pages are in this ...
However, Shobha Mandi, a former member who later quit the organisation, wrote in her book Ek Maowadi Ki Diary that she was repeatedly raped and assaulted by her fellow commanders for more than seven years since she wanted to quit. She also claimed that wife-swapping and adultery are the common amongst the Maoists. [42]