DEEP in the jungles of Bastar, a few kilometres off the dirt track that runs between Bijapur and Gangalur, in the adivasi village of Irullipallan, it is almost noon. Marvinda and his family have just arrived from a refugee camp at Shevnaar, about 10 km away, to inspect the old, burnt remains of their home before cooking and eating lunch. Later, they will trudge back to the camp, completing what has virtually become a daily ritual since October 2005, when the administration forced them to leave their village. Marvinda says, "I didn't want to leave. But the police beat me, tied my hands and hung me upside down from a tree. Then the Salwa Judum (S J) burnt our huts. They said if we didn't want to leave our villages, we must be Naxalites." For tribals like Marvinda, Bastar has turned into a battle-zone ever since the Salwa Judum, roughly 'peace hunt', a state-sponsored movement against Maoists, was created. Working closely with the police, S J members