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By Rakesh Mani

OVER the last few months, and especially after the massacre of Indian security forces in Dantewada recently, many Indians have been pondering over the rise of the Maoist movement in the country.

Who are the Maoists? On the one hand, India's prime minister calls them India's biggest internal security threat and the home ministry tells ( Read more... )

By Trevor Selvam
Countercurrents.org

Instead of offering to quit, Mr. Chidambaram should very simply have resigned and walked away. That would have shown some genuine morality, not the play acting and drama associated with trying to salvage his bruised ego by "offering"to resign.

Real moral people make up their minds, talk to their family and ( Read more... )

There are two Indians.

by B. Raman

The dazzling India which we see every day on our TV channels, in the spins of our political leaders and in the writings of our so-called strategic analysts. This is the India which, according to them, is moving rapidly forward to take up its position as a world power, which is courted by the other nations of the ( Read more... )

Summary

Naxalite rebels reportedly killed between 70 and 80 national and local Indian police personnel in a well-executed ambush April 6 in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Naxalite ambushes targeting Indian police are common, especially in eastern India, but the April 6 attack was unusually large. This attack followed classic guerrilla ( Read more... )

AKHIL GOGOI IS THE LATEST SOCIAL ACTIVIST TO BE DUBBED A 'MAOIST' BY THE GOVERNMENT

SANDEEP PANDEY - Magsaysay Award winner


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PKKH

After much rioting, violence, and firebombing of theatres, the Shiv Sena has now bombed Puna to sabotage the efforts of the people of South Asia to achieve peace. Shiv Sena: Mumbai for Maharashtrians Xenophobia


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by Moin Ansari

Failed States. The Shev Sena vials of hate about "Mumbai for Maharashtrians only" is more insidious than the most vocal Nazi racism that was built on ethnic cleansing and deportation of "aliens". The Shiv Sena "war against North-Indian's" is more profound than the chauvinistic malevolence of the KKK that propagates the racial ( Read more... )

Unholy alliance in North-East India
M. Amarjeet Singh
February 19, 2009

Although insurgency in several areas of the North-East region of India has declined, external manipulation and support to insurgency in Assam, the most populous State in the region, continues to be a problem.

Three States in the region, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram ( Read more... )

Momin Iftikhar

India's neighbours are long used to living with the pain of an unrelenting hegemony but Nepal can be singled out as its most hapless victim; notwithstanding the fact that there are many common bonds that could have formed the basis of a strong and enduring relationship. The two nations are strongly bounded by culture, religion ( Read more... )