And then there were seven in the silent hills

After decades of being caught betwixt Maoists and the police, the 7 families inactive surviving successful Telangana’s Karreguttalu Hills are discovering beingness beyond fear. Once a formidable Maoist stronghold connected the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border, the hills are present opening up with roads, information infrastructure and the committedness of energy and development. But instrumentality of the State’s writ besides raises questions astir the aboriginal of the forests and the communities that person lived present for decades. Abhinay Deshpande reports