Cash-For-Votes That Marred An Election
RK Nagar leaves a dirty spot on Tamil Nadu’s poll scene, signalling it’s all about power to the moneybags
The Walter Way
How Dawaram- a Tamil Nadu Cop- exploited a lack of unity among the Naxals, thus succeeding in targeting uncompromising leaders...
Hounds Of Guerrilla War Go For The Big Kill
‘Fight the guerrilla like a guerrilla’—the anti-Maoist GreyHounds do what it takes
‘Few Biopics Stand The Test Of Time...You Have To Get It Right’
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...
A Long March To Rid India Of Maoism
Left-wing extremism is on the decline, but any let-up in counter-insurgency may see it re-emerge stronger
Beckoning A Red Star Over India
A close-knit constellation of Maoists, resisting an imperialist state, will make the New Democratic Revolution a reality. Naxalbari guides them like a lodestar.
Red Shadows Of Hope And Despair
Reason, argument and a story—mapping the evocative and agitated contours of Naxalite imagination in Indian Cinema
The Balladeer’s Mutiny
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.
Red Hand That Led Mamata
Fighting ‘pro-capitalist’ Marxists on the political turf, the CM knows she can’t displease the state’s ultra Left
The Resistance Of Campus ‘Naxals’
It’s not the 1960s, but radical students’ groups are still a thorn in the establishment’s side
‘New Maoist Revolts Didn’t Identify Enemy, Have Plan For Land Capture’
On Naxalbari movement's 50th anniversary, Presidency college's former student recalls those tumultuous days...
Thunder From A Distant Past
Three men fired up by Naxalism in the 1970s are just detached watchers now
All Red In The Rear View Mirror
Former Naxalite Ashim Chatterjee looks back at the rebellion that made him
Naxalbari: A Long And Bloody Battle
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
The Obituary Of Spent Cartridges
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.
Forever Young And Dead
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?
Mainstream Pushed To The Margins
The seven per cent turnout in the Srinagar bypoll marks a new low for Kashmir’s pro-India parties
Man With The Trophy Baggage
In his long innings with the BCCI, Sitaram Tambe has been the in-transit custodian of trophies
Triumph Of The Will Behind His Pace & Patience
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.