About the Book: Nightmarch: A Journey into Indias Naxal Heartlands
In 2010, just as the Indian government was stepping up its counterinsurgency
operations in the countrys Naxal-affected areas, Alpa Shah set out on a
seven-night march with a guerrilla platoon across 250 kilometres of the same
territory. An anthropology professor, she wanted to understand why, against the
backdrop of a shiny new India, the countrys poor had shunned the worlds largest
democracy and united with revolutionary ideologues. Dressed as a man in an
olive-green guerrilla uniform, Alpa was the only woman and the only person not
carrying a gun in the platoon. Her gritty journey reveals