Yes it's long and worth it. I had no idea who or what the Naxalites were, are. Now I do at least to the extent covered by the essay. It reminded me some of Che Guevara's notes going into Bolivia, except the people encountered in this essay were a lot more advanced with their projects.
I had to google a lot just to get some idea of the geography, where in India, and how much territory was involve. That was a shock. It took some time this afternoon thinking about it. Yes, I do remember a story here and there. I very vaguely remember an AJE story about them and looked it up. It was Imran Garda, India's Silent War. It's not very good. He went into an area with a camera crew and started with the local military so his view was automatically slanted. I re-watched it and about 4/5ths of the way into the piece he realizes that he really doesn't know what he is doing and more or less gives up and leaves the story as an enigma. I remember it again and what I thought. Just another lost indigenous people dying out under the wave of development. The piece ended on a dark note. That isn't at all what the Arnundhati Roy's piece depicts. She was by herself with a notebook and a camera. She had a lot lower profile and could more easily hang out. Pretty much my ideal journalism. CG _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
