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Book Review: The Curious Case of Binayak Sen by Dilip D’Souza Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers India Ltd. Year: 2012 ISBN 9789350294864 By Geeta Garg, MPhil Research Scholar, IGIDR The curious case of Binayak Sen is a riveting account of the life of Binayak Sen from the eyes of Dilip D’Souza who uses his skills as both a writer and a journalist to draw readers to the case fabricated against him by the State and the Judicial System to convict him on the grounds of being a courier between the jailed naxal leader Narayan Sanyal and a businessman named Piyush Guha while he was only performing his duties as a public health specialist and a civil rights activist in rural India sentencing him to life imprisonment in May 2007. While the book revolves around the life of Binayak Sen, it is by no means aimed at portraying Binayak Sen as a ‘hero’ as the writer mentions in the Chapter – 1 of the book, …show more content…

Sen’s idea of structural violence – violence that pervades through the structure of society- caused by factors such as malnutrition, low birthweights brings our attention to that fact that the State’s efforts in eradicating these violent group by means of formulating another violent movement – Salwa Judum is an utter mistake. Sen’s only fault was his unacceptance and open critiquing of such actions of the State which were understood as his association with ‘so called’ terror groups and his propagation of the ideas that the most effective ways of tackling the problem of Naxalites was by tackling the problems of malnutrition etc. The Chapter -9 of the book throws light on the frightening state of the villages in

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