War has spread from the borders of India to the forests in the very heart of the country. Combining brilliant analysis and reportage by one of India’s iconic writers, `Broken Republic’ examines the nature of progress and development in the emerging global superpower, and asks fundamental questions about modern civilization itself – in three incisive essays: Mr Chidambaram’s War ‘The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa …’ Walking with the Comrades ‘The terse, typewritten note slipped under my door in a sealed envelope confirmed my appointment with ‘India’s single biggest internal security challenge’. I’d been waiting for months to hear from them …’ Trickledown Revolution ‘In the early morning hours of 2 July 2010, in the remote forests of Adilabad, the Andhra Pradesh State Police fired a bullet into the chest of a man called Cherukuri Rajkumar, known to his comrades as Azad …’