The elections – peaceful or otherwise – will shortly be over, and a new government will installed at Delhi. The Maoists threat will remain among the most significant challenges it will have to confront

BY Bibhu Prasad Routray 19 April 2009

Manipur has long been stained by the incessant bloodshed of its multiple and fratricidal insurgencies, but October 21, 2008, will go down as a moment of reckoning for security planners in India...

BY Bibhu Prasad Routray 28 October 2008

Contrary to media reports, the current spate of violence is not about the overall problem of illegal migration from Bangladesh. It is about Bodo aspiration to secure or sustain their majority in areas in and adjoining the Bodo heartland.

BY Bibhu Prasad Routray 5 October 2008

In the coming days, NSCN-IM is bound to see its popular support decline even further, even as peace in Nagaland remains miles away. Muivah, NSCN-IM's M, has already started talking about exercising the 'back to the jungle' option

BY Bibhu Prasad Routray 12 June 2008

While the conventional 'protracted war' is being played out by the Maoists in the impoverished eastern Vidarbha region of the state, a silent operation is on in the flourishing western industrial townships.

BY Bibhu Prasad Routray 19 March 2008

Recent Naxal 'incidents' in Orissa underline the pathetic state of affairs in the state where some of the police stations in remote locations have been locked up, as police personnel have simply fled...

BY Bibhu Prasad Routray 27 February 2008

Manipur's tragic and sustained downward spiral continues, reinforced by the collapse of the state government, and the centre's manifest lethargy in evolving an effective strategy of recovery.

BY Bibhu Prasad Routray 3 December 2007

The nexus, rooted in ethnicity, between establishment politicians and militants would be tragic if it had not become almost routine in the Northeast.

BY Bibhu Prasad Routray 17 October 2007

And Naxals rule the roost: all the six Maoist-affected districts in Maharashtra fall in the Vidarbha region. And the recent police 'successes' do not mean that the Maoist challenge is over

BY Bibhu Prasad Routray 3 October 2007

Behind the rhetoric of reform and reconstruction, the interim administration is replacing the existing system of parliamentary democracy with a radical-authoritarian regime under the pretext of curing the evident 'ills of democracy'

BY Bibhu Prasad Routray 2 August 2007