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Bastar: Caution in air as old Reds return
At her mud-walled, lowroofed home in the village of Puwarti in Sukma, Chhattisg arh, Madvi Hunge is busy winnowing rice. She is willing to talk, but not before making a sarcastic complaint: “Till Hidma died, no one came to meet us.”Madvi Hidma, one of Bastar’s most feared Maoists, was the brother-in-law of Hunge. He headed a dreaded battalion of CPI (Maoist) until he and his wife, Rajakka, were killed in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh last year.Among Hunge’s guests that day is a young headman, or …
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