Arundhati Roy went to meet the Maoists in Chhattisgarh recently and wrote a long (thousands of words) essay for Outlook. Read the essay here.And then read a critique of the essay by Salil Tripathi in Mint:
"Maoists have killed many and manipulated many more. Their latest victim is Arundhati Roy, who uses her gift of writing vivid prose to clothe their trite claims with poetic adornment. She equates their cynical quest for power with the genuine demands, rights and concerns of the people who live in the forests. She gives new meaning to the binary logic of 'us or them', something she ridiculed when George W. Bush used it. Without having been the Maoists’ hostage, Roy has caught the bug called the Stockholm Syndrome."
Read the full column here.
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