India's policy makers are bullish about the prospect of double-digit GDPgrowth and accordingly are liberalising the regime to attract the necessaryinvestments, both domestic and foreign. In an earlier column, this writer raisedquestions regarding the sustainability of such rapid growth if it wereaccompanied by a dangerous widening of disparities between richer regions andpoorer ones. But there is a far graver internal threat to the growth processitself if it is allowed to spiral out of control -- the spectre of Naxalism orLeft-wing extremism that casts its shadow over 150 districts in the country.