New Delhi, April 5 Picture the forests of Bastar in 2013. No roads. No mobile signals. No banks. No schools worth the name. A parallel government, complete with its own courts, its own tax collectors and its own executioners, ruled these jungles by absolute terror. Tribal families buried their dead in silence, fearing that grief itself might draw suspicion. Security forces moved in convoys because moving alone meant dying. India, the world's largest democracy, had effectively ceded sovereign territory to a Maoist militia operating on the instructions of a long-dead Chinese dictator. Fifty-seven years of this. Twenty thousand dead. Twelve...