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Red Sun (2008)

by Sudeep Chakravarti(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0670081337 (ISBN13: 9780670081332)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Penguin Global

review 1: Red Sun: Sudeep ChakaravartiNaxalbari has not died and it will never die – Charu MujumdarNaxalism is one of the most debated, controversial and aggravated threat to India’s national integrity. It was also romanticize unnecessarily as a fight against injustice and inequality. Typical stereotypical assessment of Maoism , that it is a socio-economical issue which can resolve not with guns but with inclusive policy making and uplifting of the tribal by means of good governance is partially correct but not ultimate solution of the problem. So many hidden threads are attached to the issue and author had unfolded the same threads in the book i.e. Red Sun.Sudeep Chakaravarti , has travelled through the red corridor ,especially through Dandkaranya and Saranda (second largest a... morerea under the command of maoist after dandkaranya). He had interacted with the kanu sanyal and abhijeet mujumdar( son of charu mujumdar) along with many underground comrades of Communist Party of India (Marxist/Leninist). It provides us first-hand information about the problems of tribal people and how government officers are ignorant about them. Equally, author has also depicted the brutal oppression policy by the naxalites over the poor tribal who are unnecessarily suffering between SALAWA JUDUM and naxalites. He has assessed unseen facets of Salawa Judum,(rebellious uprising by adivasis of dandkaranya ), later supported by the government agencies by providing arms and ammunition.Noteworthy aspect of this book is author has travelled from Naxalbari (west Bengal) to Bijapur, Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh), almost through the entire red corridor, so how there is also a cast and regional politics for leadership in naxalites organisation, how Andhra’s leadership is dominating over the Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, worst condition of women and their exploitation, all these thing brilliantly put by author which gives a profound insight of the naxalites movement. An interesting anecdote from the book is about a small group of naxalites from Jharkhand separated from main stream organisation fighting against exploitation forest department. They don’t want a different country or they are not following Mao’s idealogy. Their demands are simple; they want peace and justice from the oppression of forest department.In nutshell, Red Sun is an interesting and insightful study of india’s internal war which raises many questions. A must read book for all politicians, bureaucrats and also for comrades to understand the sombre issue of India.
review 2: A surprisingly well written and well researched account on the subject.The book starts with some detailed maps and statistics regarding the people’s war movement in India and ends with "the urban perspective plan 2004" of CPI (Maoist) attached as an appendix. The amount of organisation and how widespread the movement is, is both revealing and scary.A travelogue rather than a history as the author himself claims, but still he manages to give us a brief historical and ideological perspective regarding the movement since the Naxalbari. The author does a good job of exposing the amount of state exploitation, poverty, rampant corruption, caste violence and little or no justice in rural India. Something the ruling classes and the middle classes of urban India chose to ignore.The interviews with Maoists, Maoist sympathisers, bureaucrats, and security personnel provide a lot of insight into the current situation.The future?Peace seems unlikely as the Naxals are dedicated to the Maoist ideology and the path of protracted armed revolution, while the state seems determined to ignore the reality and go ahead with their unregulated neoliberal policies leading to further alienation and destitution. less

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