Maoist

Daughter of a Maoist

Shahina KK

Terrorised by the police, bereft of parents, evicted from school—what it means to be a 15-year-old daughter of parents ‘wanted’ by the State

Orwell’s 1984: Starring the Sori Family

Rahul Pandita

The absurdity of India’s fight against the Maoist insurgency

The Fight Goes On

Rahul Pandita

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

That Film of Memory

Rahul Pandita

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

Red on Screen

Rahul Pandita

An Indian filmmaker’s tribute to the Maoist movement gets commercially released across Nepal

In Pursuit of a Collector

Rahul Pandita

A dispatch from Ground Zero of Orissa’s Malkangiri district

On 24 December, Dr Binayak Sen was sentenced to a life term on charges of waging war against the State, sedition, and for colluding with Maoists. I saw a very different man on my last visit to his house

Unsaid Words

Rahul Pandita

A woman remembers her best friend, a man dubbed a Maoist and killed by the Republic of India. He happened to be her journalist husband

“Atmosphere not conducive for talks”

Rahul Pandita

Maoist supreme commander Mupalla Laxman Rao, alias Ganapathi, responds to Open's questionnaire. An unabridged version of his written responses

Whose Development Is It, Anyway?

Kobad Ghandy

Now that the Government has finally struck down the Vedanta mining project in Orissa, senior Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy, presently under arrest inside Delhi’s Tihar jail, writes about how mining giants are making obscene amounts of money at the cost of the poor while even the State fails to make any gains.