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'We all murdered Kanu Sanyal'

I don't believe Kanu Sanyal committed suicide. We all murdered him, the present society being his killer.The peasants' movement across the country lost its parent today. I am dumbfounded.My association with Kanuda dates back to the 1950s when India was witnessing the Tebhaga movement. It was a militant campaign initiated in Bengal by the Kisan Sabha (peasants' front of the Communist Party of India) in 1946.

Gaddar's Lal Salaam to Kanu Sanyal

Folk baladeer and poet Gaddar spoke about Kanu Sanyal's death. Gadar has been involved with the Naxal movement in Andhra Pradesh for twenty years. He spoke to rediff.com's Mohammed Siddique.

'Kanu Sanyal was unabashed in criticising CPI-M'

To Kanu Sanyal, the world consisted of two things -- right and wrong. There was no in between. Inspired by hardcore radicalism, Sanyal was someone who would fight till his last breath. Which is why I am startled by his suicide. Why would someone who was willing to lay down his life for others hang himself? What ailed him?Was it his own disillusionment or his frustration at the failure of a movement that he and his friends laid down their lives for?

Life and times of Kanu Sanyal: Rebel with a cause

Kanu Sanyal was one of the founder members of the Naxal movement. Sanyal, along with fellow Communist revolutionary Charu Majumdar, started the Naxalbari movement in West Bengal on May 25, 1967. Though the movement was brutally crushed by the police within a few months, Naxalism as an ideology managed to survive and has evolved into the Maoist insurgency, considered to be the biggest threat to internal security in India today.

Top Naxal leader Kanu Sanyal commits suicide

Kanu Sanyal, one of the founders of the Naxal movement in India, committed suicide on Tuesday. The veteran leader hanged himself in his residence at Seftullajote village, 25 km from Siliguri, on Tuesday.

'We alienated Kanu, we must be punished'

Naxal leader and Kanu Sanyal's friend Ashim Chatterjee speaks about Kanu Sanyal's life and death.

Naxalites to fight govt unitedly

How the new government must tackle the Maoist threat

Besides weakening the Maoists' lethal capacities and reducing violence, it is essential to ensure that governance is improved, so that those prone to sympathising with, or supporting, the Maoists would, in the long run, realise the needlessness and futility of doing so, says P V Ramana and Raj Bala Rana.

Remembering Pather Panchali with Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray would have been 97 today, May 2. Soumendu Roy, who worked with the legendary director for many years, looks back on the Genius that was Manikda, as the Master was known to family, friends and admirers.

'The Naxalites only want to kill the police and CPI-M'

'They do not want us to construct roads or to conduct health camps. I see no logic in their demands,' says West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.