As it grows into one of the global economic powerhouses of the 21st century, India still experiences very high poverty and child malnutrition and intense internal contradictions over the course of its growth. Those contradictions are playing publicly nowhere more right now than the state of Orissa in the northeast of India. There, the British mining company Vedanta is aggressively pursuing a bauxite mining project in the face of intense opposition from the indigenous Dongria Kondh people and a growing Maoist insurgency that is in turn facing repression from state security forces and paramilitaries. What are the origins of contemporary Maoism in India, what are the prospects for confronting a state increasing allied with multinational capital, and for a united front with social movement and parliamentary Left forces in India? Biju Mathew, New York-based Indian writer-activist and co-founder of the Forum of Indian Leftists, breaks it down with host Eric Mann.