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Posts Tagged ‘Chhattisgarh’

How to handle the Maoists

By Afshain Afzal • May 17th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story

The recent agony of yet another defeat due to killing of 77 Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and injury of scores of other at the hands of Naxals in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh on April 6 has forced New Delhi and the state leaders to join their heads to chalk out a new strategy against [...]



Violence of Indian State Since 1967

By Mamoona Kazmi • May 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Naxal leader Koteshwar Rao claimed that they could overthrow the Indian state much before the year 2050. This statement reflects the dissatisfaction of a section of Indian Society from Indian system and State. It took a lot of time for someone to come to that point of taking the decision of secession. Similarly, a lot [...]



Naxalites: Oppressor or suppressed?

By Mamoona Kazmi • Nov 12th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Maoists detained the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express near Jhargram in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district on Tuesday for five hours. Commenting on the incident Maoist Polit Bureau member Koteswar Rao alias Kishanji said, “We want to teach the upper classes a lesson and change their narrow class outlook through this incident”. The incident came on [...]