When the Assamese militant outfit, United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), abducted social-environmental activist, Sanjoy Ghose, in July 1997, they did not what they were dealing with. There was an uproar. Protests, appeals and condemnations poured in from the world over. The ULFA panicked. It kept issuing contradictory statements - that he was safe and sound, and that he had died. Finally, the Indian Army intercepted an ULFA message indicating that he had died in the neighbouring mountainous...