I'm not an aid worker, I'm actually a writer. I just moved to India this month to work on a book about why the Maoist movement spread in the past decade or so despite India's overall economic growth.
Have any of you worked in the "Naxal-inflicted" areas (to use a term popular in the press), especially in the rural areas of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and so on? What were you experien…