Red Sun: Travels In Naxalite Country

Spread over fifteen of the country's twenty-eight states, India's Maoist movement is now one of the world's biggest and most sophisticated extreme-left movements. Hardly a week passes without people dying in strikes and counter-strikes by the Maoists-interchangeably known as the Naxalites-and the police and paramilitary forces. In this brilliant and sobering examination of the `Other India', Sudeep Chakravarti combines reportage, political analysis and individual case histories as he takes ...