pare Done Sowerun. STONE HET Se ; (eer UND LEVEL FOR, OnE rh DECADE) GROWING EVER MORE >” INTERESTED IN THE way i TRAVELLING THROUGH THE REMOTER JUNLES <_ ‘ OF CENTRAL INDIA FOR WE ON END ANDI NU Te L PEOPLE. ” BY Pi he » RAHUL PANDITATRANQUEBAR PRESS An imprint of westland Itd Venkat Towers, 165, P.H. Road, Maduravoyal, Chennai 600 095 No.38/10 (New No.5), Raghava Nagar, New Timber Yard Layout, Bangalore 560 026 Survey No. A-9, II Floor, Moula Ali Industrial Area, Moula Ali, Hyderabad 500 040 23/181, Anand Nagar, Nehru Road, Santacruz East, Mumbai 400 055 47, Brij Mohan Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi 110 002 First published in TRANQUEBAR by westland ltd 2011 Copyright © Rahul Pandita 2011 All rights reserved ISBN: 978-93-80658-34-6 ‘Typeset in Aldine401 BT by SURYA, New Delhi This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, circulated, and no reproduction in any form, in whole or in part (except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews) may be made without written permission of the publishers.Contents Acknowledgements ix Author's Note xi I. Give Me Red 1 IL. History’s Harvest 15 II. The Return of Spring Thunder 35 IV. Hello, Bastar 51 V. Gunpowder in Bhojpur 69 VI. Andhra to Abujhmaad 79 VII. The Guerillas, the Republic 117 VIII. The Rebel 135 IX. The Urban Agenda 153 Postscript: The Death of a Balloon Seller 173 Afterword: Comrade Anuradha Ghandy and the Idea of India—by Kobad Ghandy 181 Index 191