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Bastarche maovadi (बस्तरचे माओवादी)
दहशतवादाप्रमाणेच देशात नक्षलवादी कारवायांच्या बातम्या वारंवार वाचायला मिळतात. छत्तीसगड, महाराष्ट, बिहार, मध्यप्रदेश अशा अनेक राज्यांमध्ये नक्षलवादाचा प्रश्न गंभीर बनत चालला आहे. भारतात जाणवणारी सामाजिक विषमता, जोडीला दुष्काळ यामुळे गरीब, आदिवासी माओवादाकडे झुकले. हिंसाचारणे क्रांती होते, असे मानणाऱ्या नक्षलवादी नेत्यांना ही ही चळवळ रुजविली. मुळात माओवाद म्हणजे काय, त्याचा इतिहास, त्यात सहभागी लोक, त्यांची भूमिका, ते कुठून व का येतात, त्यांची जीवन पद्धती, त्यांचे बंड संपुष्टात येण्यासाठी सरकार करीत असलेले उपाय, राहुल पंडिता यांनी 'बस्तरचे माओवादी' मधून मीमांसा केली आहे. बस्तर मधील नक्षलवादी भागात त्यांच्याबरोबर राहून, जाणकारांशी चर्चा करून एक पत्रकाराने लिहिलेल्या या पुस्तकातून एका वेगळ्या भारताचे दर्शन होते. याचा मराठी अनुवाद चिन्मय दामले यांनी केला आहे..
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Our Moon has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmi
"This powerful and moving book throws a sharp new light onto one of the most tragic conflicts in the modern world. As a young boy, Rahul Pandita was exiled from his native Kashmir. Now, twenty years later, he returns to the prelude and aftermath of his exile, narrating his family's tortuous journeys with great sensitivity and skill. Every paragraph of this compelling memoir rings deeply true." -- Ramachandra Guha The story of the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandit community from Kashmir in the 1990s, told for the first time. Memoir and history at its best. Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family, who were Kashmiri Pandits: the Hindu minority within a Muslim- majority Kashmir that was becoming increasingly agitated with the cries of Azadi from India. The heartbreaking story of Kashmir has so far been told through the prism of the brutality of the Indian state, and the pro-independence demands of separatists. But there is another part of the story that has remained unrecorded and buried. Our Moon Has Blood Clots is the unspoken chapter in the story of Kashmir, in which it was purged of the Kashmiri Pandit community in a violent ethnic cleansing backed by Islamist militants. Hundreds of people were tortured and killed, and about 3,50,000 Kashmiri Pandits were forced to leave their homes and spend the rest of their lives in exile in their own country. Rahul Pandita has written a deeply personal, powerful and unforgettable story of history, home and loss.
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Hello Bastar: The Untold Story Of India’s Maoist M
With an afterword by jailed Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy Praise for Hello, Bastar "Rahul Pandita had done something unusual - He had studied the Maoist movement at ground level for more than a decade, growing ever more interested in the way it functioned, travelling through the remoter jungles of Central India for weeks on end and spending time with the tribal people." -- PATRICK FRENCH, British writer and historian. With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of how a handful of men and women, who believed in the idea of revolution, entered Bastar in Central India in 1980 and created a powerful movement that New Delhi now terms as India’s biggest internal security threat. It traces the circumstances due to which the Maoist movement entrenched itself in about 10 states of India, carrying out deadly attacks against the Indian establishment in the name of the poor and the marginalised. It offers rare insight into the lives of Maoist guerillas and also of the Adivasi tribals living in the Red zone. Based on extensive on-ground reportage and exhaustive interviews with Maoist leaders including their supreme commander Ganapathi, Kobad Ghandy and others who are jailed or have been killed in police encounters, this book is a combination of firsthand storytelling and intrepid analysis. Hello, Bastar is the story of: How the idea of creating a guerilla base in Bastar came up What the rebels who entered Dandakaranya had to deal with The Jagtial movement that created the ground for the Maoist movement The first squad member who died for revolution How Maoists and their guerilla squads function Their goals, recruitment, party structure and funding Their ‘urban agenda’ for cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai Their relationship with people and peoples’ move- ments Maoist supremo Ganapathi and other top leaders Anuradha Ghandy’s journey from Bombay to Bastar