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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.
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]
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]
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.
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 New Peace Process commenced with the first Bastar Dialogue, a three-day consultation event held at Tilda Chhattisgarh on 8 June 2018. Just before the December election of 2018, combined efforts by some Left-leaning intellectuals, peace activists, non-governmental organisations and civil society and tribal leaders of Bastar were aimed at opening channels of communication between ...
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 ...
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 ...