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...strategy of persuading militants, often through their families, to surrender, re-enter "the mainstream" and accept financial assistance. Peace talks with ULFA broke down in 2006, and two battalions of the group have refused to surrender, setting up bases in neighboring Bangladesh and in Burma, intelligence officials say. P.K. Mishra, inspector general of the Border Security Force for the Assam & Meghalaya frontier, who spoke to TIME from his headquarters in the city, says he thinks the blasts are the work of the two ULFA battalions which have not surrendered. "They wanted to show their strength," Mishra says...
...than 2.1 million people in the worst-hit parts of Bihar are not only homeless but stranded, and 55 have been killed as the floods washed out the roads and railroad lines that connected residents to the rest of the country. "We can't reach there," says Dinesh Kumar Mishra, a civil engineer and head of the non-profit group Barh Mukti Abhiyan (Freedom from Floods Campaign), who spoke to TIME from northern Bihar, where he is trying to organize relief efforts. "They are trapped." Mishra, who has been tracking monsoon floods for more than 20 years, says this year...
...that is almost synonymous in India with misery and corruption, has come under fierce criticism for mismanagement in the last days in New Delhi. "It is a complete failure of the state government," said Ram Vilas Paswan, a minister in the central government and member of Parliament from Bihar. Mishra says that Kumar should have called in Navy days ago, as soon as it became clear that aid would not be able to reach the flooded district via road or rail...
...With them, the story of Buddhism in India comes back to its beginnings. In his book An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World, author Pankaj Mishra describes the troubled times in which the Buddha appeared. Dissatisfied with lives regimented around work, he writes, people gathered to listen to a new breed of freethinking philosopher, "India's first cosmopolitan thinkers." Those disaffected seekers came together in groves and parks built near the cities of the sixth-century B.C. Gangetic Plain. But any 21st century Delhi-ite would surely recognize the tensions driving their search for spiritual clarity...
...million - a fact she puts down to generous supporters who have showered her with gifts of jewelry, art and cash. Her aides say that the gifts are all fully recorded and accounted for, and stopped the moment she became Chief Minister. "These are absolutely bulls___ allegations," says Mishra. "She is not guilty of anything." (Mayawati declined numerous requests for an interview with TIME...