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...separatist conflict there and low-level insurgencies in the country's remote northeast grind on at the periphery, driven by groups agitating to break away. The Maoists, like their ideological brothers in Nepal who recently took power through elections, are different. They want to overthrow the government in New Delhi and install a new one, and they have taken their fight to the geographic heart of the country, to the scrubby woodland and remote, poor villages that blanket a huge chunk of central India. The would-be revolutionaries trace their roots back to 1967, when a group of activists split...
...government security forces, civilians and the Naxalites themselves, and the conflict killed 837 people in 2007, enough to make it deadlier than the Kashmir conflict for the first time ever. "It's absolutely a growing threat," says Ajai Sahni, executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi and a keen observer of the re-emergence of the Naxalites. "You can't escape that fact...
...people there don't just live on the edge of Indian society - they live beyond it, in a void that successive governments in New Delhi have neglected for decades. In this part of the country, far removed from the famed call centers of modern India, there are no roads, no power, no running water, no telephones and no officials to answer pleas for help...
...most intriguing; the irony of it made me question your according him such a rank. What influence does a man have when his deepest desire remains unfulfilled, when his influence fails him at the very point on which he would want it to have an impact? Sadia Khan, NEW DELHI...
...Whoever is behind the recent series of blasts, the intention is clear, says Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi: "They want to hurt India's economy and they want to provoke sectarian unrest between communities here." The blasts over the past three years, Chellaney and other analysts point out, have all been carried out against "soft" targets such as trains, public buildings and markets. Since 2001, India has tightened security around government officials and government offices. But in a country of India's size and population, it's impossible to guard against...