Passengers of the Bhubaneswar Rajdhani had never seen militants with such crude arms

Chanchal Ajmeria, 40, hadn't had any real encounter with militants. And the ones she had seen on television and movies were armed with sophisticated guns. She couldn't have imagined that on her first militant encounter, she would meet rebels who still rely on bows and arrows and can take a train hostage with the seemingly simple weapons.

Under siege: The Bhubaneswar-Delhi Rajdhani Express, which was taken hostage by Naxals at New Delhi Railway Station. Even as it arrived in New Delhi, the slogans written by the Naxals were there pics/Imtiyaz Khan