Paru Majhi, 38, crouches restlessly along with other villagers at a CPI Maoists’ den in his village, Jamti, a tribal hamlet around 200 km from Ranchi on March 14. These places are in eastern India’s Jharkland state.

An armed gunman walks towards a brass pot and fishes out a paper chit from it. For a few seconds, the villagers’ heart beats stop.

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