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^Attack whom? They have no standing army. They hide in jungle. It is guerrilla warfare. This is not Mahabharata that the armies will meet on battlefield and fight till sundown.

CPI(M) leader shot at by suspected Maoists Raktima Bose A day after four jawans of the Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) were shot dead by a group of Maoists in the Lalgarh region of West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district, violence involving the extremists continued unabated on Monday...

Maoists blow up bridge in Orissa STAFF WRITER 12:20 HRS IST Malkangiri (Orissa), Nov 10 (PTI) Maoists blew up a bridge over a rivulet in Orissa's Malkangiri district today, in an apparent bid to disrupt movement of security forces ahead of the proposed anti-naxal operation. The...

Women Maoists led attack on EFR jawans Caesar Mandal & Sukumar Mahato, TNN 10 November 2009, 06:55am IST Print Email Discuss Bookmark/Share Save Comment Text Size: | GIDHNI (WEST MIDNAPORE): The attack on paramilitary jawans at Gidhni on Sunday evening was led by two women — just...

Buddha warns Maoists of 'all-out police action' Bhattacharjee Posted: Monday , Nov 09, 2009 at 1127 hrs Midnapore: Without naming anyone, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said that the Maoists were getting support from mainstream political parties. Agreeing with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s...

Vasectomies, violence inside India's Maoist camps By Rupam Jain Nair (AFP) – 10 hours ago JAGDALPUR, India — A quick exchange of guns and a pledge to undertake a vasectomy is customary for India's Maoist "comrades" when they wed in their isolated forest hideouts. Some 10,000-20,000...

I wonder if the Maoist leadership will agree to contest elections.

Thanks a lot Bengalrider. Nice to hear first-hand reports from these regions. Please feel free to post local news reports. Often the ground realities get ignored in the fight over ideology.

Kobad Ghandy, Naxalite Last year, when Anu Ghandy -- activist-academic turned member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), the only woman to have served on the party's Politburo -- passed away, Jyoti Punwani had written movingly in the TOI about Memories of a Naxalite Friend: In...

Five Maoist rebels arrested in Jharkhand Tags: Ranchi (Source: IANS) Published: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 at 13:11 IST Ranchi: Five Maoist rebels, including two top leaders, have been arrested from two districts in Jharkhand, police said Tuesday. Four Maoist rebels were arrested Monday night...

Art of living inspires 3 rebels to drop guns, contest polls Art of living inspires 3 rebels to drop guns, contest polls Sanjay Ojha, TNN 30 September 2009, 11:39pm IST RANCHI: It's a spiritual re-run of Mahatma Gandhi's advocacy of non-violence. Three Maoist rebels have decided to drop...

India plans all-out attack on Maoists By Siddharth Srivastava NEW DELHI - India is preparing to launch its largest and purportedly best-organized offensive ever against the four-decades-old Naxalite (communist rebel) insurgency that affects hundreds of millions of people across vast swathes of...

^I hope it is short and sweet. I don't like this increasing involvement of the army in various internal conflicts.

I couldn't agree more. I just wonder which part of the Indian political establishment was blocking this move for all these years.

Naxalism is by far the biggest threat to India, and yet it doesn't receive the same coverage as other issues like Islamic terrorism.