When Process Is Punishment: Hidme Markam's Activism and the Sketchy Cases Against Her
When Process Is Punishment: Hidme Markam's Activism and the Sketchy Cases Against Her Markam knew she would soon become a target â every tribal rights activist confronting state repression in Bastar faces a similar fate. Hidme Markam amid heavy paramilitary deployment at a protest in Dantewada. Photo: Deependra Sori Dantewada (Chhattisgarh): Hidme Markamâs arrest was inevitable. Over the past decade, the 28-year-old Adivasi rights activist from Permapara in Burgum village of Dantewada district in southern Chhattisgarh had immersed herself in the peopleâs movement, fighting both...