Hello Bastar: The Untold Story Of India’s Maoist Movement

For someone like me who is an implacable ideological opponent of macabre left wing terror, “Hello Bastar” starts off by striking a strong discordant note. Rahul Pandita commences his chronicling by thanking Naxal ideologue Varavara Rao, a certain red comrade T and Arundhati Roy, the fashionable anarchist-activist. This poisonous polemicist has effortlessly turned out as prima diva of Naxal cheerleaders. But setting side my deep distaste for the overground sympathizers of underground movement, I continued reading the book.  I must say I was duly rewarded for this. This riveting book is worth every paisa I spent on it and some more.

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