Naxalism

Suspended Animation

Rahul Pandita

The fate of Special Police Officers in the state needs to be decided quickly

Blood Red

Neelesh Misra

The country may be rife with strife, but insurgency cannot be used as an excuse for misgovernance.

Some of them haven’t even attained puberty. But Maoists think nothing of brainwashing them to their cause and thrusting guns in their unsuspecting hands, using them to fight armed forces, lay land mines and inform on their kith and kin. This is the story of thousands of lost childhoods.

Those whom Naxals Kill

Jaideep Mazumdar

While the country bellyaches about the Naxal menace, who speaks for the poverty-stricken victims out there in the wilderness?

The Talks That Almost Were

Rahul Pandita

A top Maoist ideologue has revealed how Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh had tried opening a secret backdoor channel with the CPI (Maoist). Did it have the approval of the party High Command?

From behind the Bars

Rahul Pandita

Varavara Rao’s Captive Imagination is one of the most vivid prison diaries of our time.

The War Nobody Can Ever Win

Rahul Pandita

Far from TV studios, in the deep forests of Gadchiroli, nobody cares about national sovereignty, the State or the Sensex. The only battle is to fool death and avoid getting injected with an odorous liquid that delays the rotting of a corpse.