A communist poet and radical journalist, a secret State killing, an attempted revolution sparked in the village of Naxal | dG1fYmJkMkZRbTYwRzQ
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00:00I still remember what I said the other night. It was about 71 years ago.
00:10One night, we were in a bit of a daze.
00:22We didn't know when we would hear the news.
00:25The situation in Kolkata was turbulent.
00:30My brother and I slept in the same house.
00:37My brother had a chicken pox.
00:43We would hear knocking at night.
00:49I didn't know if it was the police or my father.
00:55I opened the door and saw my father.
01:00He said to my mother,
01:03I don't want to stay here any longer.
01:06You should go back.
01:08My father had a cell phone tenfold.
01:12He came to stay with us.
01:15He didn't stay for long.
01:17He stayed for a while and then left.
01:20Even if someone had identified me,
01:23the police would come and surround me.
01:27I wouldn't have been caught by the local police.
01:30I would have left by the time they got ready.
01:33The house we had in Chetla,
01:35it was a strategic place.
01:38There was a road on the other side of the river.
01:41You couldn't take the main road.
01:43You had to take the back road.
01:45We took advantage of that.
01:47My father would come from the back.
01:50He would knock at the back door.
01:53My mother said,
01:55you can't stay here tonight.
01:57You should go back.
01:59You have chicken pox.
02:02Chicken pox.
02:05If you have it,
02:07you can sleep on the same bed.
02:09If you have it,
02:11you can't move.
02:15You can't move.
02:17You will get sick.
02:19You will get chicken pox.
02:21You should go.
02:23My father said,
02:25wherever we live,
02:27in the village,
02:29in the city,
02:31if there are people living in poverty,
02:33we stay in their houses.
02:36In almost all their houses,
02:40they have TB.
02:42They don't get treatment.
02:45There is a lot of chicken pox.
02:48There are people in their houses
02:50whose whole family is suffering from TB.
02:54We have to stay with them.
02:57If we have chicken pox,
03:00we have to be afraid of it.
03:03Then we have to leave the revolution.
03:06We don't care about all that.
03:09If we have to stay in these fights,
03:12we have to stay with them.
03:14You don't have to worry.
03:16What kind of a spirited person is he?
03:19He can't control anything.