A short report based on their book, Alpa Shah, who teaches anthropology at the London School of Economics, is the author, most recently, of Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas; it opens with:
Tens of thousands of people have died in the conflict between Maoist guerrillas and the Indian state. Alpa Shah lived among the tribal villagers in their guerrilla strongholds for a year and a half to understand why they shunned democracy to take up arms.

(Closes with) But the Naxalite movement has survived against all odds, resurfacing each time the state assumed it had been snuffed out.
The BBC's photo is worrying and made me wonder if the foremost guerilla was serious._96083788_gettyimages-148026315-1.jpg