Walking With The Comrades

"You have blood on your hands," someone once told the government. In Walking With The Comrades, Arundhati Roy walks into the heart of that blood-soaked forest.

This isn’t fiction. This is India’s internal war—one that most media outlets won’t show you. In this raw and fearless book, Arundhati Roy ventures deep into the Dandakaranya forest to meet the Naxalite-Maoist rebels—a banned group branded as terrorists by the Indian state. But what she finds isn’t just about rebellion—it’s about land, survival, inequality, and the haunting silence of those who have been pushed to the edge.

Roy doesn’t write from a safe distance. She lives with the guerrillas. She eats what they eat. Sleeps where they sleep. What emerges is a ground-level view of a conflict most of us know only through headlines. She reveals how corporate interests and government policies have displaced thousands of Adivasis (tribal people), destroyed forests, and launched a so-called "war on terror" within the country’s own borders.

With powerful storytelling and piercing clarity, Roy questions who the real terrorists are. Is it the state, armed with military might and media manipulation? Or the people defending their ancestral homes with little more than handmade rifles and unmatched courage?

Walking With The Comrades is more than a political essay—it’s a human document, full of emotion, outrage, and relentless truth. It’s a life-changing perspective on what resistance really looks like in the face of erasure.

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