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21 Feb 2010
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| Editorial: Maoist- Naxal Menace Haunts the Nation |
Editorial: Maoist- Naxal Menace Haunts the Nation
The Editorial Team
Jihadi and Maoist-Naxal terror attacks continue unabated. The Pune blast which has so far claimed 15 lives was followed by Maoist- Naxal attack on Eastern Rifle camp in Silda, West Bengal killing 24 jawans on Feb 15. This savagery was followed by 11 killings in Jamui, Bihar by the Maoist-Naxal groups. A Block Development Officer was kidnapped in Jharkhand and released reportedly only in exchange of captured Naxalites. The terror groups have been striking at will, at the time ...
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| India Buckling Under US Pressure? |
India Buckling Under US Pressure?
Amba Charan Vashishth
In the heat of the moment when Mumbai was rattled with serial bomb blasts in local trains about three years back, the government announced cancellation of its proposed talks at Secretary's level with Pakistan. But soon it ate its own words. It displayed a U-turn and declared that the peace process would go on.The people of India are fed up with the stale, oft-repeated and hackneyed reactions whenever terrorists, in complicity with and moral and material support from ...
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| Rising Menace of Maoist Terrorism |
Rising Menace of Maoist Terrorism
 RP Tripathy
National security of India is under great threat mainly on two fronts: cross border terrorism and Naxalism. The country is facing the scourge of terrorism for the last three decades. In fact, no other country in the world has waged such a long, relentless struggle against terrorism as has India. The threat from within is more dangerous while that from cross border terrorism and aggression is no less. We do not seem to have learnt a lesson in dealing with such menace and contin...
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| Two Eyes for An Eye, The Jaw for A Tooth | Two Eyes for An Eye, The Jaw for A Tooth
 Kanchan Gupta
Even before the CPI(M) could stabilise and get its act together after it was formed in 1964 following the historic split in the CPI over what the Marxists call "revisionism and sectarianism in the Communist movement at the international and national level", it was convulsed by a revolt within. Charu Mazumdar and Kanu Sanyal, veteran Communists of north Bengal, insisted that pursuing the path of parliamentary democracy was futile; that conditions were ripe for a rural ins...
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| Dhimmitude Emasculates Government | Dhimmitude Emasculates Government
 RK Ohri
The bomb blast which targeted Pune on February 13, 2010, killed 11 innocents and injured more than 40 citizens at German Bakery demonstrated the resolve of Pak-supported jihadis to target India. It also highlighted the wonky law and order priorities of the government. For three days the entire might of Maharashtra government was focussed on ensuring the release of Shahrukh Khan's movie, ‘My Name is Khan', which was a business venture of an indiv...
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