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Sometime in the early summer of 2013, while preparing for a motorbike ride in the forests of Bastar, the State administration came up with a request to this correspondent — to mediate with left-wing rebels to recover the body of a Greyhound soldier (of the elite, anti-Maoist force) who had been killed in an encounter with the rebels. The forces were apprehensive of entering an area, which was controlled by Maoist fighters and expecting a recovery mission. A journalist from Bijapur, a few traders and this correspondent took a 100-kilometre bike ride in search of the soldier’s body. While the journey was worthy of an essay in itself, the events that transpired form a curious interpretation of the pressure on journalists in the hostile territories of south Chhattisgarh (Bastar division).
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:46:16 +0000

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