Wet paddy fields glisten from the morning's rain, the nearby mud and stone houses are topped with handmade earthen tiles. Below a horizon of sloping forested hillsides and bare granite boulders, neat turquoise-coloured cabbage patches and ochre-shaded stubble fields are divided by vivid green mango and tamarind trees. The impression is of a tranquil, rural idyll.
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Special report, part two: the forgotten war of rural eastern India
Near the village of Pithertoli, Ajay is hiding in the trees.
