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Ratan Deep Bhatt is a senior level pharma executive, had an opportunity of travelling to the Naxal affected belts while carrying out his sales assignments during 1984–2000. The socio-economic conditions of the people living in these belts are pathetic and disturbing. They are exploited and treated like animals and bounded labourers, just for food. Even Naxalite movements has further deteriorated their lives and put them in risk for merely a salary of Rs.1,500–3,000. Most of them are fighting for the cause unknown. They are being used as terrorists for extortion and other political gains by their operators in most of the cases.