walking with the comrades

I have just read an excellent article by Arundhati Roy, the famed Indian novelist, entitled 'Walking with the comrades', in which she tells of her visit to armed Maoist insurgents in eastern India this year. The full article can be read here:

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/22-walking-with-the-comrades-aj-07

The article has provoked an interesting debate on an excellent website called Run from big media. You can review the debate here:

http://kafila.org/2010/03/22/response-to-arundhati-roy-jairus-banaji/#comments

These resources give an interesting insight into what Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calls 'the gravest security threat' facing India today.