Law of the jungle

The Moist press note that arrived at a newspaper office in the first week of March said: "Shikhshakarmi ke naam pe kalank Kamlu Varda ko janata ke hathon maut." Or that primary school teacher Kamlu Varda had been executed. So had two other men. Kamlu Varda, 30, had done well for a Madia adivasi. He had spent eight years teaching, had a monthly salary of Rs 7,700, and a cycle on which to travel the 10 km from Kutul, where he lived with his family, to Dhurbeda, where he worked. Both villages are in Abujhmad, a forested plateau in Narayanpur district in southwest Chhattisgarh.

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