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36. Kavita Krishnan, ‘Manipur Diary: A Report of the CPI(ML) Delegation’s Visit to Manipur’, Liberation, November 2004.
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42. Pinochet unseated the democratically elected government headed by the Marxist president Salvador Allende in a US-backed coup in 1973 and ran a brutal dictatorship till 1990.
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Conclusion: Towards Fearless Freedom
1. John Romano, ‘James Baldwin Writing and Talking’, The New York Times, 23 September 1979.
2. Maheshwar, ‘Srishti Beej Ka Naash Na Ho’, http://kavitakosh.org/kk/आज_लड़ाई_जारी_है_/_माहेश्वर, accessed 12 June 2019.
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4. I owe this insight to Tanika Sarkar’s oral observations about the film, in a private conversation.
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Afterword
1. ‘I’m scared, don’t hang up: Hyderabad vet to her sister before being raped and murdered’, India TV News, 29 November 2019.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Rakhi Bose, ‘Hey Hyderabad Police, Instead of Advising Us on How Not to Get Raped, How About Telling Men Not to Rape’, News18, 3 December 2019.
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Acknowledgements
For shaping my world and for sharing it, I want to thank:
My mother Lakshmi, and aunt Valli, the original roaming duo. We are lucky to have grown up with our imagination fired by the examples of adventurous and fearless girls. Thank you!
Nataraj and Ananthu, for love, laughter and every kind of support.
Thatha and Patti, Sharada Patti and Ananthanarayanan Thatha, Jyoti and Baba—you are missed.
Geeta-di, Jeeta, Ajanta, Srilata and Rama, who showed me the many ways of being a communist feminist.
I also want to thank:
Ma, for your unstinted love, and for the example of your quiet courage and independence.
Radhi, sister and friend, who walks the same path, frets more, laughs sweeter and lives kinder.
Om, for always being there to lean on, and for unfailing good cheer in all weather.
Vijay, for being part of the December 2012 movement, with your camera.
Heartfelt thanks to Amruta Patil, for generously allowing her Abhisarika Nayika for the cover artwork of this book.
Thank you, Kalpana Wilson, for two decades of friendship and productive Marxist feminist conversations.
S. Anand and Smita Patil, thank you for helping track down references for B.R. Ambedkar’s writings.
Thank you, Revathi, for help with understanding Subramania Bharathi’s poems.
Thank you, Toonika Guha and Manasi Subramaniam at Penguin Random House India, for suggesting I write this book. Both of you, together with Shreya Pandey, have given me all the support and confidence I needed along the way. Thanks to the entire team at Penguin Random House India for their patience with my many delays, and for making this book happen.
A heartfelt thank you to all the comrades of All India Students Association, All India Progressive Women’s Association and the CPI(ML) over the past couple of decades—any strength, courage, insight, patience and empathy I have, I have learnt from you.
To all my many comrades in the women’s movement, I want to say thank you for all that I have learnt from you, for being such staunch friends in need, and for the precious gift of critical solidarity.
Tapas—friend, comrade, companion, partner—you are the wind in my sails, thank you.
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