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The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement

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Rahul Pandita
Delhi-based conflict writer. Author of "Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement" (Tranquebar Press), and co- author of Hachette India's non-fiction book of 2010,"The Absent State".
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Sunday, November 01, 2009

Whose war is it, anyway?


Arundhati Roy quotes my interview with Maoist supreme commander Ganapathi in her latest essay.
Posted by Rahul Pandita at 12:29 pm 2 comments:
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