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‘My talent was not much utilised’: Surrendered Naxal with ‘photographic memory’ wants to be a lawyer

The Indian Express·Chandan Haygunde·about 1 month ago
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A group of surrendered Maoists are busy making fountains from bamboos and growing vegetation on the premises of the Gondia police headquarters in Maharashtra. Among them is 42-year-old Vinod Ramaswamy alias Anil Nagpure alias Vikas alias Anant. A native of Karimnagar district in Telangana, Anant was a high-ranking leader of the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh (MMC) zone of the banned CPI Maoist. Anant speaks various languages fluently, mainly English, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Chhattisgarhi and Gondi. Police said Anant is fond of reading and enriching his knowledge on various social and political issues. His name cropped up in many Naxal cases, but was never arrested in the past, police said. Responding to the government’s deadline for Maoists to surrender before March 31 this year, Anant and 10 others put down their arms in Gondia in November last year.…

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