India’s post-LWE future, from red sun to new dawn

Fourteen years ago, successful West Midnapore successful West Bengal and Simdega successful Jharkhand — 2 districts worst affected by Left Wing Extremism (LWE) — young tribal girls often practised hockey with battered sticks and boundless resolve, adjacent juggling footballs connected uneven world amid sal forests. As Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellows with the Ministry of Rural Development, our adjacent enactment with the District Magistrates successful some districts, and, galore different initiatives, helped acceptable up an astroturf hockey academy and a artifact shot grooming centre nether the cardinal government-financed Integrated Action Plan.

Today, Salima Tete carries guardant Simdega’s hockey bequest arsenic skipper of the Indian women’s hockey team, and Mamta Hansda from that aforesaid rugged shot centre successful West Midnapore is present portion of the Indian women’s elder shot team. These are sweat-soaked fields which talk a 1000 words.