Prashant Rahi was arrested on charges of being a Maoist leader. Out on bail, he speaks of prison life, Anna Hazare, and much else

Those opposed to Srinagar’s Harud litfest have only strengthened radical voices in Kashmir. In the name of a ‘cause’, they have silenced those whose stories must be told

How a team of strategists has been hard at work dipping into the past and playing the media to project Anna Hazare as the new Mahatma

Tarun Tejpal’s novel should be read to understand the world we live in, one that extremist ideologies have plunged into darkness

Threatened by Kharwar tribals in this district, Yadav Maoists go on a spree of revenge killings

For two decades, Ghulam Nabi Fai funded Kashmir militancy right under Washington DC’s nose. The game is up

The fate of Special Police Officers in the state needs to be decided quickly

If the Supreme Court wants SPOs in the state disarmed, what about other conflict zones?

They may be a dime a dozen these days. But writers can benefit immensely from these interactions

...and what I learnt of life, reporting from Bastar and other Maoist areas