Bastar

Maoists or Sub-Rural Thugs?

S Prasannarajan

Getting out of the fallacy of ‘compassion vs combat’

The Endgame in Bastar

Siddharth Singh

Maoists are running out of places to hide

Bastar: Guns and Roads

Siddharth Singh

After nearly two decades of violence, Bastar now has a semblance of normalcy but this has more to do with individual choices than ideological leanings

Wild Lives

Adil Bhat

A personal portrait of tribal sensitivity

Ballot in Bastar

Siddharth Singh

Where the people’s choice swings between hope and fear. Siddharth Singh reports from what was once a notorious Maoist village in Chhattisgarh

Amit Masurkar: ‘I have to keep the people’s view as the dominant narrative’

Nikhil Taneja

Amit Masurkar delves into conflict-ridden Chhattisgarh and emerges with uncanny hope and an Oscar nomination

Navjot Altaf: An Iconic Journey

Rosalyn D’Mello

Navjot Altaf and a sensibility shaped by Bastar and other distant cultures

Conflict Zone

Mahtab Alam

A requiem for the people of Bastar

Lord of the jungle and the magic potion

Rajni George

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