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It is not over yet
Insurgencies in India’s Northeast are demonstrating signs and intent of staging a comeback. The premature claims by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in...
Don’t be afraid of the dark
The intensity of stone-pelting by violent mobs in Kashmir valley, which started in June this year, has abated substantially due to firmer policing and bold political...
Winning by out-governing
Now that India’s co-ordinated anti-Naxalite strategy (widely referred to as Operation Green Hunt) is in full swing, New Delhi has committed itself to a major...
Fewer troops in the Kashmiri heartland
After the successful conduct of assembly and parliamentary polls in Jammu & Kashmir, the alleged incident of rape and murder of two women in Shopian saw the...
Hope is the antidote to Naxalism
Two young auto rickshaw drivers were in the queue at the Road Transport Office (RTO). They had already lost two days’ income with no end in sight for their registration...
Winning the counter-insurgency endgame
It has been recognised that successful counter-insurgency strategy—recently popularised as the Petraeus doctrine and implemented successfully by the United States...
Money and friends
They have claimed to represent the poorest and most oppressed sections of society for around four decades now. Their attacks have primarily targeted representatives...
Why trying to buy surrender will not work
As folk wisdom goes, pre-empting problems is better than curing them. If not prevented from arising in the first place, the next best thing is to resolve them with...
Hope is the antidote to Naxalism
Two young auto rickshaw drivers were in the queue at the Road Transport Office (RTO). They had already lost two days’ income with no end in sight for their registration...
An ideological adversary
“A Maoist who surrenders shall get a three year fixed deposit of Rs 300,000 and in addition to this, Rs 2,500 will be paid every month to the Maoist”, says a...
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