Tripura is carving out a success story in the troubledNortheast, as its police force reorganizes radically to evolve acounter-insurgency strategy that has left entrenched militant groups indisarray. Building on a model of a police-led response to terrorism, which sawthe country’s most dramatic victory over this modern scourge in Punjab in theearly 1990s, Tripura’s police, under the leadership of its chief, G.M.Srivastava, has reversed the trajectory of insurgent violence and, crucially,mobilisation, in his tenure of under two years, despite continued and vigoroussupport provided to the insurgent groups by Bangladesh, and the safe haven eachof these outfits has been provided in that country.