Operation tribal hunt?
Javed Iqbal
The New Indian Express
Madvi Mukesh, 18 months, is missing three fingers, lost when security forces allegedly killed his mother. Photo : Javed Iqbal
DANTEWADA(CHHATTISGARH): The authorities call it Operation Green Hunt, going by the conventional wisdom that the Maoists being chased — in Chattisgarh in this case — fight from thick jungles. But many of [...]
Ashram demolition linked to founder’s stand: team
Siddhesh Inamdar
The Hindu
“It is another vindictive act of Chhattisgarh government”
Mumbai: The demolition of the Vanvasi Chetna Ashram in Dantewada in Chhattisgarh is linked to its founder’s stand against the State-sponsored Salwa Judum campaign, an all-India fact-finding team told journalists at the Press Club here on Wednesday.
The press conference was organised by the Committee for the [...]
Death On The Margins
Tehelka Cover Story “Binayak & The Tragedy Beyond”
Far from the national gaze, the establishment practises a dangerous malevolence when confronted with its anti-people policies, reports SHOMA CHAUDHURY from Raipur and Dantewada. Photographs by SHAILENDRA PANDEY
Old threshold 2.30pm and Binayak Sen finally closes the door of his home to the [...]
GREETINGS FROM BASAGUDA
by Javed Iqbal
Villagers who escaped the Maoist-Salwa Judum conflict return to their homes after three years and the Vanvasi Chetna Ashram which has helped them come back is under attack from the Raman Singh government. Javed Iqbal reports on the changing fortunes of Bastar’s tribal communities caught between the Maoists [...]
They demolished Gandhian ashram, and beat us badly
Symbi student, 18, narrates her first-hand experience of state repression in conflict-torn Dantewada in Chhattisgarh
By Veronica Kalpana Gautam
Mumbai Mirror
THEN
NOW
Pictures of the non-profit Vanvasi Chetna Ashram in Dantewada, Chattisgarh, before and after demolition by the state authorities on May 17
As part of my Media and Communication programme of Symbiosis International University, I have been interning [...]
