[First published in The Hindu dated 11/11/17] Fifty years after India’s first Naxalite uprising, the Maoist movement today has nearly disintegrated, with several movement leaders now dead, arrested or having surrendered. Ajay Gudavarthy’s edited collection of essays raises the vital question at this juncture: Is violence necessary for revolutionary change in a democracy? While notContinue reading “A critical appraisal of India’s Maoist uprising”
An anthropologist among the journalists 