The turning point came in 2011, not in the forests of Bastar, but in the imposing courtroom of the Supreme Court in Delhi, where Salwa Judum did not appear as a community movement of desperate citizens but as a legal question stripped of context, history, and lived experience.
Several eligible voters among the tribal families in Bankura and Purulia are still reluctant to fill up and submit enumeration forms under the influence of 'Majhi Sarkar' leaders, despite the recent arrest of three of them in the region, and the efforts of the local administrations to win their faith in the national democratic process.
