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malik against whom the rik had initiated many campaigns will be amused will the general secretary of the party for whom one of those opposed to the festival used to make revolutionary posters in his student days call me right wing well best of luck mates this reminds me of a musical a group of students had wanted to organise at kashmir university some time ago and were forced to call off the future of kashmir will also depend on who emerges a winner in such battles those who opposed this musical or who were for it unfortunately those who opposed harud have ended up strengthening radical voices in kashmir to my kashmiri friends i say this we need to fight our own battles the twitter messiahs will come and go they have no stake in our story for them we are just case studies for another article or a film or white paper it is time we owned our stories the story of fancy jan who received a bullet in her heart the groom whose henna dyed little finger went lifeless the old poet in whose forehead they drilled a nail in place of his tilak or the young kashmiri who travelled from delhi to jammu in june 1997 and at the punjab jammu border saw a photo of his brother s bullet ridden body splashed on the front page of daily excelsior i will tell that last story harud or no harud rahul pandita is a kashmiri writer a staffer with open he was a member of the advisory committee for the harud literary festival posted by rahul pandita at 8 11 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels harud kashmir literature friday august 26 2011 guerilla in the forest this girl is a member of the chetna natya manch the cultural troupe of the cpi maoist along with other members the girl travels from village to village in the guerilla zone if need be she can also defend the group in case there is a police ambush posted by rahul pandita at 1 40 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 16 2011 hello bastar 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 this book could be useful for any future dialogue between the government and the maoists which is an urgent necessity jailed maoist ideologue kobad ghandy angry restrained detailed circumspect a strongly felt portrait of the maoists of bastar business standard pandita achieves a sensitive and humane account of the real lives of the people in the maoist movement by cutting through not just state and media propaganda but also through maoist ideology tehelka 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 available in book stores across india from june end onwards tranquebar press paperback price rs 250 currently hello bastar can be ordered at heavy discount on the phone from dial a book 09650 457 457 cash on delivery facility in 27 cities delivery in delhi ncr within 24 hours and other places in 2 3 days or online at www flipkart com cash on delivery facility plus heavy discount posted by rahul pandita at 4 22 pm 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels hello bastar kobad ghandy maoists rahul pandita sunday may 01 2011 muchiness long time ago i used to know this woman who was much older than me we met at a bar one cold winter night where we sat at different tables both of us alone and both of us nursing the same brand of whisky the waiter who served us both knew me well since i was a regular at one point and i think i was on my third drink my glass and that of the woman emptied about the same time and we asked for a refill she noticed that i was also having the same whisky and i looked at her and a smile passed between us we got talking on that lonely night we opened up to each other and we talked about many things i remember most of what we shared but there is one thing that i remember the most as we left we held each other in a light embrace the woman flicked the ash off her cigarette before she turned she looked at me and she said i am so tired of being an emotional anchor it has been many years i have lost touch with that woman the bar where we met has been turned into a convenient store and now i am tired not out of being an emotional anchor that i cannot be i suppose i am tired of many things at one point in alice in wonderland mad hatter tells alice you used to be much muchier you have lost your muchiness i think i am tired of the absence of that muchiness in life posted by rahul pandita at 10 43 am 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels loneliness wednesday april 06 2011 in pursuit of a collector open magazine in pursuit of a collector open magazine pic by ishan tankha posted by rahul pandita at 4 15 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels maoists उड़ीसा wednesday february 02 2011 the unsaid words 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 for the first time in my life says babita pandey i had a wifely chat with hem a night before he was to leave for nagpur they discussed how they never took a holiday in their eight years of marriage she says i told him that there were so many things that had been left unsaid in our relationship and that we needed to plan our lives she remembers his putting aside the book he was reading and smiling at her she remembers his words he said our life is a part of the larger events that shape this society and that it cannot be separated from what s happening in india or elsewhere in the world babita sits on a boulder at jawaharlal nehru university and her eyes well up at the memory of hemchandra pandey her husband my best friend as she calls him it is sunny and she squints perhaps as a ruse to hide her tears sometimes she brushes imaginary dust off the dial of her sonata wristwatch sometimes she looks at her worn socks or her hang nail fingers clutching her knees a cup of warm tea sits by her side it is two days since the supreme court issued a notice to the centre and andhra pradesh government on a petition filed among others by babita seeking a judicial probe into the killings of maoist leader azad 58 and journalist hemchandra pandey 32 we cannot allow the republic killing its own children a court bench had observed the two were shot dead together last july by security forces in an alleged fake encounter azad had on him a letter written by swami agnivesh the mediator appointed by the centre for talks with maoist insurgents the police said that hem was a maoist as well and that both were killed in an armed engagement in adilabad district of andhra pradesh close to the maharashtra border civil rights activists however allege that both of them were picked up from a hotel in nagpur flown in a helicopter to the jungles of adilabad and then executed in cold blood azad was supposed to travel to bastar from nagpur to seek the opinion of a section of the maoist leadership on talks with the centre the post mortem reports of both azad and hem suggest that they were shot from very close range even as an independent probe carried out by human rights groups tears apart the police version of events in adilabad s jungles activists allege that hem was killed alongside azad because the police did not want an eyewitness to survive an agitated swami agnivesh who has complained about what he terms the government s deceit in luring azad into a talks trap had been demanding a judicial probe into the encounter babita remembers the day very well the day hem left for nagpur it was 30 june and hem left for his office to check the last page of the hindi magazine he used to help bring out he returned in the afternoon babita says and left soon after to catch his train to nagpur i called him in the evening recalls babita he picked up his phone and laughed gently he said there was a fat man sitting on his seat he said i ll sit in a corner i said no you ask him to vacate that seat after all it s reserved for you that night babita didn t call again to her everlasting regret the next morning when she called hem s mobile was not reachable she tried again later in the day this time she found the phone switched off i got really worried since hem would make sure that he calls me from wherever he was babita says on 2 july hem was to return on a train that would have arrived in delhi at 7 30 am babita cooked him a breakfast he should have been home by nine when he didn t arrive babita went to the railway station to check whether the train was delayed it was not by late morning news of maoist leader azad having been shot dead in an encounter was breaking across tv news channels it was not all that was to break that day a friend of babita caught a picture of hem s body in a newspaper and alerted her brother to it the horror took several staggering moments to sink in he too had been shot he was wearing the same shirt i had taken out for him says babita a cotton shirt since i knew it gets very hot in nagpur the shock began turning to numb acknowledgement only once she saw pandey s decomposed body it was a sight all too painful worsened by the labels some sections of the media started slapping him with he was just a left leaning journalist who would spend most of his meagre income on books she says both hem and babita are from pithoragarh district in uttarakhand that shares its boundary with tibet and nepal in his college days in the late 1990s hem was an active member of the students wing of a left wing party babita was still in school when they met he would come home with my brother i liked his serious demeanour he spoke very little and introduced me to the world of books says babita she remembers hem lending her premchand masterpieces like godaan and gaban and also gorky s mother i was very young and understood very little but i read them all says babita it was in 2002 that they got married in july even after marriage hem would prod his wife to read and write on women s issues he often said that self independence was the first step towards women s liberation babita says the two moved to almora where babita worked for a newspaper while hem immersed himself in people s movements such as peasant agitations and calls for prohibition babita says her friends or relatives never understood their marriage they would say you people never go out say to watch a film or dine at a restaurant some of them thought we had hit a rough patch but i always had the best possible time with him though his lack of interest in domestic issues would sometimes bother me the pandeys moved to delhi in 2006 hem began working as a freelance journalist and according to babita wrote more than a hundred articles for various newspapers mostly on agricultural issues he was a true leftist she says in my absence he would clean the house wash utensils and even cook food he would not let me make tea in the morning asking me instead to go through newspapers and tell him about reported events all that is now long gone after his death babita has been trying to get back to a regular life this is what hem would have wanted she says but it has been tough a police party even raided their house in her absence and claimed to have found incriminating evidence of hem s maoist links what they d found was a stack of books no more subversive than the works of lenin and engels she says and some maoist press releases there were no binoculars or for that matter any fax machine there as the police claimed only one computer was there that hem would use to write books yes but is that a crime if the cops were suspicious babita wonders why hem could not have been arrested instead of shot even if he was a maoist the police had no right to kill him you know he had sympathies for the lower strata of the police force as well and he would say that they were just trying to earn a living after hem s name surfaced along with azad s many friends advised babita not to speak of azad since that would associate the name too closely with her husband s but i cannot do that she says azad and hemchandra pandey s names are linked in the same chain now moreover azad s death is equally tragic babita pauses every now and then as if to give her best friend s memories some space he was young she says too young to have died like this thoughts ebb and flow in her mind perhaps hem would still be alive had she called the night he left or if she had accompanied him as she had wanted a plan spiked by lack of money she misses the tea he d make she misses the articles he d read aloud and explain word by word like arundhati roy s account of her visit to maoist territory after hem s death babita has not returned to her east delhi residence but she plans to go there one of these days she hopes the police have left untouched a pair of shoes she had bought for hem from delhi s karol bagh market just days before he died or his shirts the few he had or his books the many i just want to keep them with me she whispers after the interview as we walk towards the university gate babita has a question for me you own a house then another how much do you earn and then she suddenly goes silent perhaps she s saying to herself what she couldn t say to hem in eight years of married lif...