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  1. Walking with the Comrades (2011) is an eyewitness account of the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency by Indian author Arundhati Roy. The book covers her time in 2010 spent living with Naxalite communist guerillas deep within the forests of rural Chhattisgarh.

    • Arundhati Roy
    • 2011
  2. 1. Jan. 2010 · Walking With The Comrades by Arundhati Roy | Goodreads. Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Kindle $14.99. Rate this book. Walking With The Comrades. Arundhati Roy, Giorgio Garbellini (Translator) 4.14. 1,818ratings239reviews. Kindle $14.99.

    • (1,8K)
    • 2011
    • Arundhati Roy
    • Hardcover
  3. 28. Sept. 2012 · by. Arundhati Roy. Publication date. 2012. Topics. Politics and government, State-sponsored terrorism, Scheduled tribes, Natural resources, Crimes against, Capitalism, Guerrillas, Case studies, Social conflict, Political atrocities, Social Marginality, History. Publisher. Penguin Books. Collection.

    • Literary Genre in Arundhati Roy’s Essays on Bastar
    • Indigenous Journeys Within Itineraries of Conflict
    • The Author as A Global Cultural Mediator
    • The Itinerary of Conflict as A Semiotic Function
    • Embodied Presence in Itineraries of Conflict
    • Conclusion
    • Acknowledgments

    In her influential study of imperial travel narratives, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (1992), Mary Louise Pratt proposes the notion of the “travelee” to evoke the perspective of “people at the receiving end of empire.”2 In addition to deconstructing the literary tropes employed by colonial travel writers, Pratt’s landmark book ...

    Roy’s essay “Walking with the Comrades” features her travels on foot through a stretch of the Dandakaranya forest in east-central India, a region encompassing Chhattisgarh and adjacent states that has been at the heart of a leftist insurgency against the nation-state through most of the twenty-first century.23 The spatial narrative of Roy’s journey...

    An outstanding subtext of Roy’s essays is that she does not hail from adivasi tribes—such as Gond, Halba, Dorla, or Muria—that have been agitating against the government’s push to expand the extraction of mineral resources from their homelands. Referring to Roy’s earlier essay on adivasi struggles, “The Greater Common Good” (1999), a few establishe...

    “Walking with the Comrades” draws attention to the semiotic function of an itinerary of conflict that allows a resource frontier to be described again and redefined from an indigenous minority’s perspective. Itineraries of conflict depict the lived exchanges of indigenous peoples that enact a semiotic reappropriation of the resource frontier, often...

    In Roy’s essays, the act of “walking in the jungle” becomes an experiential shorthand for a wide array of embodied experiences (both past and future) that respond to the Indian state’s repressive security measures throughout the east-central region. By focusing on the willingness of thousands of people to travel by foot through the Dandakaranya for...

    The issues of global and social equity brought to the fore by Saro-Wiwa’s pioneering work in articulating indigenous issues during the 1990s have fostered a global framework of environmental justice, which tends to scrutinize the disproportionate impact of environmental disasters on social minorities. However, the discourse of environmental justice...

    I am grateful to Tracy Devine Guzmán and Jessica Rosenberg for their comments on manuscript drafts of this article. Thanks to the anonymous reviewers and the editors of this journal for their valuable suggestions.

    • Alok Amatya
    • 2019
  4. ISBN: 9788184755893. Length : 144 Pages. MRP : ₹150.00. Walking with the Comrades. Arundhati Roy. ‘The terse, typewritten note slipped under my door in a sealed envelope confirmed my appointment with “India’s single biggest internal security challenge”. I’d been waiting for months to hear from them…’.

  5. Deep in the forests, under the pretense of battling Maoist guerillas, the Indian government is waging a vicious total war against its own citizens-a war undocumented by a weak domestic press and fostered by corporations eager to exploit the rare minerals buried in tribal lands.

  6. From the award-winning author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline exposé of brutal repression in India. In this fiercely reported work of...