DesiPundit

Samanth reviews Sudeep Chakravarti’s Red Sun, which explores the roots of Naxalism in modern India.

Red Sun is written partly as a round up of contemporary Naxal history, but also partly as a travelogue, as Mr. Chakravarti forays across India and into Nepal to meet government officials, villagers and Maoist rebels, trying to work out exactly how his country should react to Naxal violence. The obvious long-term answer is real, corruption-free development, which can rob the rebels of a popular base of support. But inefficient and worryingly corrupt governance keeps that solution out of India’s reach for at least the next few decades, and keeps those hundreds of millions out of the glow of India Shining.