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‘He used the military for personal gains’

VK Shashikumar

President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s younger brother and Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was in New Delhi recently. He told Open that former army chief General Sarath Fonseka, who had contested the presidential elections, will be tried for treason and for politicising the army.

“Telangana Is My First Mother”

Anil B. Lulla

Gaddar (born Gummadi Vittal Rao), folk balladeer to the masses, has been a leading Maoist voice.

“We Shall Certainly Defeat the Government”

Rahul Pandita

Somewhere in the impregnable jungles of Dandakaranya, the supreme commander of CPI (Maoist) spoke to Open on issues ranging from the Government’s proposed anti-Naxal offensive to Islamist Jihadist movements