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West Bengal: Naxalbari, cradle of the red, now painted saffron
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“Kanu Sanyalera bari kothai?” (Do you know where Kanu Sanyal’s house is?)The traffic policeman, busy scrolling reels on his smartphone, looks up and shrugs his shoulders. Once the most wanted man in West Bengal, Kanu Sanyal is long dead. And no one is looking for him. Not even in Naxalbari, the cradle of the first Left-wing armed insurgency in India.If Charu Majumdar was the ideological heft behind the 1967 uprising, Kanu Sanyal was the chief mobiliser of tribal sharecroppers and contract labour
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