Laal Lakeer

Bheeme, a school teacher from a nondescript village in Bastar, is fighting for the empowerment of ordinary tribal women through education and employment. The Maoist rebels as well as the police consider her their enemy, since she won't give in to a system that resorts to violence to establish its supremacy. In a rather surprising denouement, she decides to fight the election to take the system head on. Laal Lakeer is a heart-wrenching love story set in the war-torn backdrop of Bastar in Central India where Indian forces and police are locked in a fierce battle with Maoist rebels.
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Laal Lakeer

Bheeme, a school teacher from a nondescript village in Bastar, is fighting for the empowerment of ordinary tribal women through education and employment. The Maoist rebels as well as the police consider her their enemy, since she won't give in to a system that resorts to violence to establish its supremacy. In a rather surprising denouement, she decides to fight the election to take the system head on. Laal Lakeer is a heart-wrenching love story set in the war-torn backdrop of Bastar in Central India where Indian forces and police are locked in a fierce battle with Maoist rebels.
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Laal Lakeer

Laal Lakeer

by Hridayesh Joshi
Laal Lakeer

Laal Lakeer

by Hridayesh Joshi

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Bheeme, a school teacher from a nondescript village in Bastar, is fighting for the empowerment of ordinary tribal women through education and employment. The Maoist rebels as well as the police consider her their enemy, since she won't give in to a system that resorts to violence to establish its supremacy. In a rather surprising denouement, she decides to fight the election to take the system head on. Laal Lakeer is a heart-wrenching love story set in the war-torn backdrop of Bastar in Central India where Indian forces and police are locked in a fierce battle with Maoist rebels.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789351777090
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Publication date: 01/10/2016
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 3 MB
Language: Hindi

About the Author

Hridayesh Joshi is senior editor (National Affairs) with NDTV India. He has consistently covered the armed conflict between the Maoists and the Indian state. In 2012, Hridayesh was given the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for reporting from war zones of central India. His first book, Tum Chup Kyun Rahe Kedar, is his reportage on the Uttarakhand tragedy.
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