Maoists

Uniformed Mess

Jaideep Mazumdar

The Maoist attack on EFR’s camp at Silda has stirred more trouble for the beleaguered West Bengal government. It is the long-neglected EFR that is now threatening to revolt against the state.

Left out by the Left

Sandipan Deb

How a barely remembered island in the Sunderbans delta links to the chain of events that has led to the Indian State’s woes with Maoists.

India This Week

arindam

Hunting Down Naxals; BJP's Invisibility Cloak; Tweet Like Tharoor; MA in Karunanidhi-giri; and Losing the Race on Caste

The Maoist Mood

Sudeep Chakravarti

So long as Nepal cannot attain political stability without them, the landlocked country’s Maoists have the strongest hand to play. What might Prachanda’s next move look like?

Wails Within Wails

Dhirendra K. Jha

Though fighting oppression in West Bengal, Maoists are busy oppressing their own cadres in Jharkhand. Dissent is not an option in their ideology

Once upon a Place

Rahul Pandita

The police orders are to ‘flush out’ Maoists, and since actual militiamen are hard to locate the State forces end up treating every villager as a closet Maoist. It all adds up to further alienation