About the Book: 

From 2011 to 2015, Ashutosh Bhardwaj lived in the Red Corridor, and made several trips thereafter, reporting on the Maoists, on police and governmental atrocities, and on lives caught in the crossfire.

In The Death Script, he writes of his time there, of the various men and women he meets from both sides of the conflict, bringing home with astonishing power the human cost of such a battle.

Narrated in multiple voices, the book is a creative biography of Dandakaranya, that combines the rigour of journalism, the intimacy of a diary, the musings of a travelogue, and the craft of a novel.

Through the prism of the Maoist insurgency, Bhardwaj meditates on larger questions of violence and betrayal, love and obsession, and what it means to live through and write about such experiences-making The Death Script one of the most significant works of non-fiction to be published in recent times.

About the Author: Ashutosh Bhardwaj

Ashutosh Bhardwaj is a journalist, literary critic and writer of fiction.

As a journalist, he has travelled across Central India and documented the lives caught in the conflict between the Maoist insurgents and the police.

From 2017 to 2019 he was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.