Name: Walking with the Comrades
ISBN: 9780670085538

Arundhati Roy

‘The terse, typewritten note slipped under my door in a sealed envelope confirmed my appointment with “India’s single biggest internal security challenge”. I’d been waiting for months to hear from them...’ In early 2010, Arundhati Roy travelled into the forests of Central India, homeland to millions of indigenous people, dreamland to some of the world’s biggest mining corporations. The result is this powerful and unprecedented report from the heart of an unfolding revolution.

Walking with the Comrades

Ankush Swarnakar

pretty 'humanizing,' does a great job of situating the Naxalite movement within a historical process and demonstrating how Naxalite warfare is reactionary, not purely ideological/'Maoist', but too often ventures into a romanticization of tribal people's ways of life. e.g. "There is a sea of people, the most wild, beautiful people, dressed in the most wild, beautiful ways" in describing a post-attack ritual

John

In early 2010, Roy traveled into the forests of Central India, homeland to millions of indigenous people, dreamland to some of the world's biggest mining corporations. The result is this powerful and unprecedented report from the heart of an unfolding revolution.