Nandini Sundar

A CBI chargesheet against state police and Sundar's book on tribals have put her in the line of fire

Professor of Sociology at DSE, Nandini Sundar, on the FIR against her and why she thinks the government is gunning for activists in Chhattisgarh

We are deeply saddened at the indiscriminate killing of 18 adivasis in Kottaguda Panchayat of Bijapur district as part of the security force’s combing operations.

'We condemn the attack by the Maoists ...in which they killed two security guards and abducted the Sukma District Collector, Alex Paul Menon'

'Appeal to both the Maoists and the government to initiate peace talks on the basis of justice and constitutional principles, since ultimately that is the only way forward'

In a path-breaking judgement, the Supreme Court holds as unconstitutional the deployment of tribal youths as Special Police Officers - 'Koya Commandos', Salwa Judum - in the counter-insurgency operations against Maoist groups, and orders their immedi

'Those that adopt violent means to express themselves cannot and should not be condoned in any manner whatsoever'

Is there no limit to the state's paranoia? Why is it so scared of those who do nothing more dangerous than teach and write that it feels they should be denied lodging, detained, provided 'protection', intimidated, 'escorted' out of the state?

While neither Maoists nor the government believes there is a neutral ground, as observers we would be failing in our own dharma if we let either side stop us in calling for peace.

It is hard to decide which is more unappetising--Buddhadeb Bhattacharya declaring that the CPI(M) had paid protestors back in their own coin at Nandigram, or the BJP and Congress condemning the violence there, ignoring their own culpability for simil

Taking on scholar-activists, the police send out this message: all is fair in the war on Maoists.

To end the Maoist conflict, look to Peru and Guatemala

Both the state and Maoists are sceptical about peace talks. Civil society must act, a civil war is upon us.

When rape is routine and there’s a paucity of condemning voices

After a long tyranny of neglect, the State speaks in wartime euphemisms

Sociological study finds a new arena: the open secular institutions

Effort to implicate Lingamram Kodopi as the "mastermind" of July 6 Maoist attack in Bastar and replacement of slain Maoist Azad prove counter-productive