Diptendra Raychauduri

Born in 1964 in Calcutta, Diptendra Raychauduri is a senior journalist. While reporting on Left politics, he undertook numerous trips to impoverished rural areas to understand why people take up arms. He used most of his vacations to stay in Naxalites infested areas to bring this novel as close to the reality as possible. Such is the power of his expression that while meandering through the various turns of India's rural landscape, the reader gets directly transformed to the Naxal lands