Rosalyn D’Mello
Navjot Altaf and a sensibility shaped by Bastar and other distant cultures
Once a bank officer, the determined herbal king of Kondagaon shakes money from trees in the Maoist strongholds of Bastar through a collective of 20,000 Tribals whose business looks to expand worldwide. The man and his empire
In Abhujmaad, the choice Maoists offer is stark: confinement or exile
As Maoists turn the heat on CPI cadres in Bastar, the latter find themselves in a double bind