loppear reviewed Walking with the Comrades by Arundhati Roy
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3 stars
The central essay on her visit to the Maoist rebels is excellent, critiquing colonially-conceived democracy (and internal war against citizens) that offers the abstract vote in exchange for ceding indigenous land to corporate extraction. A good quick introduction to the history of Communist/Maoist attempts at autonomy and rebellion in rural India, but the sandwiching essays do not lend much help to this story.
