Narmada Akka

She married Sudhakar alias "Kiran". B. Sudhakar is seen as a Maoist ideologue, and is a member of CPI (Maoist)'s "publication division". He is also a member of the Politburo of the party. == Guerrilla life ==

Narmada was able to fluently communicate in seven languages, including English. She dropped-out the college She was also acting as the chief of the ''Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan's'' unit of Dandakaranya region, which is among the top-most "women's organizations" in India when it comes to numbers of registered members, and Arundhati Roy says that it has 90,000 members. She had as much as 53 police cases registered against her name in Maharashtra. == Death ==

Narmada was reported to have been gunned-down during a fierce hour-long exchange of fire between the Maoists and State's police forces on 4 December 2012, near Hiker village, bordering Abujmarh of Chhattisgarh, in south Gadchiroli. The Maoists managed to escape the scene along with her body; and her body is reported to have been buried at Malwada tribal village in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh. After the encounter, the Superintendent of Police (Gadchiroli), Mohd. Suvej Haq, said to media personnels: She is reported to have been 57 years old when she died, by The Hindu, but Hindustan Times reports that she was 46. And, Rahul Pandita has written that Narmada's age was 48, when he and Vanessa interviewed her. While the "police sources" also say that "Narmada Akka's funeral was carried out at a village in Chhattisgarh", the Maoists did not reach out to the media following the incident. == See also ==