On Naxalbari movement's 50th anniversary, Presidency college's former student recalls those tumultuous days...

It’s not the 1960s, but radical students’ groups are still a thorn in the establishment’s side

Fighting ‘pro-capitalist’ Marxists on the political turf, the CM knows she can’t displease the state’s ultra Left

For decades, the shirtless bard’s stirring songs lent punch to a class struggle. Gaddar may carry on singing, but his opting to be a voter implies the mutation of a rebel note.

Reason, argument and a story—mapping the evocative and agitated contours of Naxalite imagination in Indian Cinema

A close-knit constellation of Maoists, resisting an imperialist state, will make the New Democratic Revolution a reality. Naxalbari guides them like a lodestar.

Left-wing extremism is on the ­decline, but any let-up in counter-insurgency may see it re-emerge stronger

‘Fight the guerrilla like a guerrilla’—the ­anti-Maoist GreyHounds do what it takes

How Dawaram- a Tamil Nadu Cop- exploited a lack of unity among the Naxals, thus succeeding in targeting uncompromising leaders...

Naxalbari’s quixotic battle-cry—for the landless, indeed all oppressed—rang out in a global ecosystem of unrest. Its shards still lie embedded in the shifting forms of dissent.

From a 1967 peasant uprising in the rural Bengal enclave of Naxalbari— hence, Naxalites — the Maoist movement still rages on. To most Indians, Naxalites are rebels confined to jungles. For the government, they represent the most potent threat to the state. The Maoists control a ‘red’ corridor, spanning India’s poorest states. It’s been a long, bloody battle

Former Naxalite Ashim Chatterjee looks back at the rebellion that made him

At 18, K. Ajitha trekked Kerala forests as a Naxal. Today, she is an active feminist.

Three men fired up by Naxalism in the 1970s are just detached watchers now

The seven per cent turnout in the Srinagar bypoll marks a new low for Kashmir’s pro-India parties

The 50th anniversary of the Naxalbari uprising offers us an opportunity to look in the rearview mirror and ask: did they all die in vain?

RK Nagar leaves a dirty spot on Tamil Nadu’s poll scene, signalling it’s all about power to the moneybags

It’s aimed high. But will stronger regional air connectivity actually work?

Tackling depression in new-age India calls for acceptance and unique solutions

Shoddy clean-up of a 12th-C shrine digs up artefacts. Some have been damaged.

In nearly two decades, Ashish Nehra has made repeated comebacks from injuries on the back of an iron will. The world’s oldest pacer is still running in.

Deepak Unnikrishnan’s first novel teleports through the Malayali-Gulf experience

Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui tallks about the processes that an actor must go through, his choices ranging from small films like Haramkhor to a ­lavish series with BBC...

'With Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, I was trying to understand the generation I adored, also the generation that failed,' Film-maker Sudhir Mishra on Naxal movement as a cinematic subject...

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