Operation Green Hunt to flush out the Maoist rebels from central India may have begun only last November, but the hapless tribals of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region have been at the receiving end of official hostility for years before that.
Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Professor of Political Science, Delhi University and I have just returned (January 1st) from a visit to the police state of Chhattisgarh.
Himanshu Kumar of VCA talks about roots of Naxalism, and why it is the harassed and the abused Adivasi poor that takes up arms against the state, and not the more docile urban poor.