The CPI (Maoist) has withdrawn from the peace talks in Andhra today, but the enormous clout wielded by them at the grassroots level in Bihar and Jharkhand would be one of the crucial instruments of influence in the electoral process

BY Sanjay K. Jha 16 January 2005

Ten Security Forces personnel were killed by PWG on July 30, but PWG is not even banned in Orissa yet. Same story: no coherence in dealing with Naxal violence, while the 'terrorists' hog the media headlines.

BY Sanjay K. Jha 3 August 2003

While cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and insurgencies in the Northeast remain the focus of the most urgent concern, the areas afflicted by various left-wing extremists groups - or Naxalites - remain relatively neglected.

BY Sanjay K. Jha 23 July 2003

The recent arrests of Nepalese Maoists active in Kolkata and Patna are yet another reminder of the linkages between them and the Indian Left-Wing extremists.

BY Sanjay K. Jha 9 March 2003

Tensions mount with the war of words as the Bangladesh government brazenly maintains that the alleged illegal migrants are Indian citizens, in keeping with its old stance.

BY Sanjay K. Jha 3 February 2003

Bihar: the collapse of the institutions of civil governance, general breakdown of the rule of law, sharp polarization of state institutions on the basis of caste, criminalisation of politics, existence of a collusive arrangement between the political

BY Sanjay K. Jha 26 November 2002