Catch Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar, This Week on Off Centre

Last month the Chhattisgarh police charged Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar and several others with the murder of a villager called Shamnath Baghel in the Maoist insurgency-hit Sukma district. While the Supreme Court has effectively stopped Chhattisgarh from proceeding in the case, it has highlighted again the state’s controversial counter-insurgency strategy that sees human rights activists as Maoist sympathizers, if not Maoists themselves.

This week on Off Centre, Anuradha SenGupta talks to Sundar who released a book last month on her decade’s long work in Bastar. She says “The Chhattisgarh Government was on the back foot and they filed this fake FIR in order to deflect attention.” Saying that her sympathy lies with the Adivasis of Bastar – caught between the state and the Maoists, she suggests “peace talks between the government and the Maoists as the only way to find a peaceful solution for the people of the region.” 

As the year winds down, Sundar describes 2016 as a year of turmoil for citizens with the latest demonitisation policy as the crowning glory.

Catch the full conversation on Off Centre this Saturday at 8 PM and
Sunday at 12:30 PM & 9:30 PM, only on CNN-News18

Click on the link to watch the promo of this episode: https://twitter.com/CNNnews18/status/806869390616498176