When former Maoist commander Badranna is not tending to plants at the public park in Chhattisgarh's Jagdalpur town, he likes to spend time with his ten-year-old daughter Manisha and her pet parrot at their small house. Badranna's wife, Latakka, once a Maoist guerrilla herself, works with the State police after the couple surrendered in the year 2000.
Read Rahul Pandita's piece for the Hindu.