'Give us five years, we will make sure you spend sleepless nights… Our mass base in Murshidabad, Malda, Burdwan and Nadia is ready. After five years, we will launch our strikes.'

BY Nihar Nayak 13 April 2006

It is not just that Naxals can almost attack at will, overpower the police, loot the treasury or decamp with 40 prisoners, including two officers, but just that the state has seemingly withered away, with no signs of any concerted approach to tackle

BY Nihar Nayak 26 March 2006

The Maoist 'success' at Jehanabad is bound to echo in other parts of India with the rebels' Central Committee having reportedly called for another round of their 'tactical counter offensive campaign' in 'weak states'.

BY Nihar Nayak 20 November 2005

"There is no basic healthcare in the villages where we are posted. We are not even getting clean water. When we are fighting disease, how can we fight Maoists?"

BY Nihar Nayak 10 November 2005

Occasional incidents of mob fury against the Maoists in Chhattisgarh– while they may reflect increasing popular frustration with the 'revolutionaries' – cannot be a substitute for coherent counter-terrorism strategy and tactics.

BY Nihar Nayak 28 August 2005

At one point of time, Naxalite activities in Orissa were only regarded as a peripheral 'spillover' from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh; it is now increasingly evident that they have come to stay.

BY Nihar Nayak 19 May 2005

Apart from the obvious human and social costs, the economic impact of the Naxalite rampage is potentially devastating. If the current trend in the proliferation of violence continue, India's target of US$ 15 billion in FDI in the year 2005 may not ma

BY Nihar Nayak 15 February 2005

The merger of two dangerous left wing extremist outfits, the erstwhile MCC and the CPI-ML PW (also known as the People's War Group or PWG) poses a threat that goes beyond internal security, and imperils India's Parliamentary Democracy itself.

BY Nihar Nayak 19 October 2004

As state governments - encouraged by the centre - engage in a 'peace process' with particular groups in one state, the same groups use the opportunities of the 'ceasefire' to extend operations to virgin territories, even as they consolidate activitie

BY Nihar Nayak 22 July 2004

Would piecemeal efforts only help entrench the PWG? Is a consolidated approach extending across a number of states practical? Are negotiations, at best, no more than an interregnum in the rising graph of extreme Left Wing violence?

BY Nihar Nayak 22 June 2004