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Red Sun: Travels In Naxalite Country
Author: Sudeep Chakravarti

Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143066538
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Book Summary of Red Sun: Travels In Naxalite Country
Spread over fifteen of the country’s twenty-eight states, India’s Maoist movement is now one of the world’s biggest and most sophisticated extreme-left movements. Hardly a week passes without people dying in strikes and counter-strikes by the Maoistsinterchangeably known as the Naxalites—and the police and paramilitary forces. In this brilliant and sobering

examination of the ‘Other India’, Sudeep Chakravarti combines reportage, political analysis and individual case histories as he takes us to the heart of Maoist zones in the country—areas of extreme destitution, bad governance and perpetual war