Days and Nights in the Heartland of Rebellion

Gautam Navlakha

Penguin Books India

272 pages, R299

Dissatisfied with the existing information regarding the war against the Maoists, the author went into the heart of Bastar to get to know the Maoists first hand. This book is an account of the fortnight he spent in the guerilla zone where the Maoists run their people’s government, the Jantana Sarkar. Through a perspective that is critical but partisan, Navlakha attempts to make the demonised human and lay bare the heartland of rebellion.