Members of an Indian tribe have been caught in the middle of a decades-long conflict between Maoists and the police.
![Women and children of the Gond tribe from Chhattisgarh state walk to collect drinking water [File: Noah Seelam/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/000_Del301024.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Rosemary Marandi is a business and economics journalist
Members of an Indian tribe have been caught in the middle of a decades-long conflict between Maoists and the police.
![Women and children of the Gond tribe from Chhattisgarh state walk to collect drinking water [File: Noah Seelam/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/000_Del301024.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
How an attack on a small tribe in western India brought attention to a people whose rights had long been denied.

Boro Baski was the first in his village to receive a formal education and now he is making sure that others do too.
