Rajeev Bhattacharyya

Rendezvous with Rebels (eBook, ePUB)

Journey to Meet India's Most Wanted Men

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rajeev Bhattacharyya walked nearly 800 kilometres, over some of the most hostile terrain and through no man's land. His journey, which took three months and twenty days to complete, is unprecedented in Indian journalism. He visited the rebel bases in Eastern Nagaland, which covers a part of Myanmar's Sagaing Division, stayed in the ULFA camp and interviewed its chief of staff Paresh Baruah, as also chairman of the NSCN (Khaplang), S.S. Khaplang himself. He interacted with rebels from banned outfits like the NDFB, UPPK, PLA and other groups - for many of them, this was their first conversation with an Indian journalist. Bhattacharyya is one of very few journalists in the world to have made this journey, and among the fewer still to have had such intimate access.Rendezvous with Rebels is the story of that journey. It is as much a travel memoir as it is a hard-hitting political account of the fissures that mark the conflicts in India's Northeast and Myanmar's Sagaing Division. Bhattacharyya analyses the historical and current role of ULFA, NSCN and other rebel forces, and sizes up the current situation in Eastern Nagaland vis-a-vis the changes taking place in Myanmar specifically, and the subcontinent generally. It is, ultimately, an up-close examination of a very thorny conflict.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789351363170
• Artikelnr.: 59890806

Autorenporträt

Rajeev Bhattacharyya is the author of Lens and the Guerrilla: Insurgency in India's Northeast, the first pictorial book on insurgency in India. He is a freelance journalist based in Guwahati and had earlier worked for The Times of India, The Telegraph, The Indian Express and Times Now. In 2004, he was selected for the Chevening Fellowship in the UK where he studied the peace process between the British government and the Irish Republican Army. He was the founding executive editor of Seven Sisters Post in Guwahati. Besides contributing regularly to academic journals on issues ranging from conflicts to the deteriorating natural environment in Northeast, he also lectures in reputed institutes.