At the height of the Naxalite troubles, a much younger and fitter I accompanied a Rajput regiment on a week’s combing operations in West Bengal’s Birbhum district. Reading of attempts to tighten internal security, I am reminded of those seven days of exhaustion and exhilaration, of tramping all night through waterlogged paddyfields while the accompanying policemen complained like petulant children being unfairly punished.

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