Open letter to Maoists: Time for change of strategy in People’s War April 7, 2021, 4:22 PM IST Shubhranshu is a former journalist with BBC. From last 15 years he is working on an experiment to create a model of democratic media in media dark zones in the forests of Central India. He has written a book called Let’s call him Vasu: With Maoists in Chhattisgarh. He is recipient of Google Digital Activism award and was named one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine. LESS... MORE My first direct contact with the Maoist party was in 1988 when I came to study philosophy in Raipur university and when I met Vijay@Vasu@Ramchandra Reddy in the weekly Coffee house meetings of Prof Surendra Parihar at 10 am every Sunday.