The Dantewada massacre turns on its head, the very idea of fighting Maoism. The reality of the situation is opposite to what is being peddled by the PMO and the Home Ministry. 

This statement is based on the following argument: the UPA government’s coming back to power in 2009 was seen as a victory of Sonia Gandhi’s  social interventionist, NREGA politics and Rahul Gandhi’s new age, pro-poor reformism. After years of communal strife and pro-corporate...

What is significant is not where the buck should or should not stop. What is important is the buck should, at no cost, be allowed to pass. Shifting responsibility doesn’t behove the responsible. The culprit-in-chief in this regard is the Chief Minister of West Bengal. Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya did not cover himself with glory when he held the Union Home Minister responsible for his own less-than responsible behaviour with regard to the Left extremists’ widespread anarchic activ...

When its fountainheads in Moscow and Beijing have got dried up, Communism of extreme form is not only surviving in India, but inflicting repeated blows. The killing of 76 CRPF personnel in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on April 6 is the latest in the series of incidents to take place in India. Earlier, the highest casualty in one such landmine blast-cum-ambush was 55; that too was in Chhattisgarh in March 2007.

Political analysts need to ponder as to what are the motivating...