What would be the most effective way for the Indian government to respond to the Maoist insurgency? 32 Articles

by Sonali Chulki

India is a diverse country in the truest sense of the word; hence the problems that it faces as a country are as diverse and complex as its populace. On one hand, there are cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, ...read more

by A.W. Berry

Leaders of India's Indian National Congress party (INC) have made statements an insurgency named the Naxalite movement is both a high national security threat and should be dealt with using Government forces and State spon...read more

by Rajib Deb

The basic triggers of Maoist revolutions or People war are exploitation, oppression, imperialism and a huge economic gap between the rich and poor class of the society. This is a revolution against the society which suppor...read more

by Rohit Kulkarni

The rise and spread of Maoist rebellion and violence in India is a legend of gross disparity between the powerful and the powerless, the rich and the poor and the different classes of the Indian populace, struggling to cre...read more

by Chiranjibi Paudyal

"Power comes through the barrel of the guns", said Mao of China when he started the bloody revolution in China. That has been replicated by Mao's followers to snatch power adopting the same method and rule the country in a...read more

by Divye Jha

In the mid of 1960, from the eastern part of India, a new wave of insurgency started. It was an entirely new style of insurgency, which India was not known to. Indians were known to the freedom fights, which they had been ...read more

by V. Kumar

The Maoist insurgency is a mixture of many phenomenon happening at the same time. The approach for tackling it will need to be equally multi-factorial to be of any consequence. On one hand, there is an underlying polit...read more

by Kamna Arora

Melancholy Continues "Political power comes from the barrel of the gun," so said China's former leader Mao Zedong in 1938. The revolutionary ripples of his ideology reached beyond the borders of China shaking a number o...read more

by Ravi Embar

Most of the current thinking in many hotspots around the world focuses on ways to control the conflict. This ignores the underlying fact that in most cases the origin of the conflict is about the control - people who do n...read more

by Calsue Murray

The Indian government has apparently been responding to the Maoist insurgency, for some years, in ways that are proving to be less, rather than more, effective. In truth, I do not know what would be the most effective way...read more

by Debaprasad Das

This is purely a Global problem, if we would realize the problem, honestly and as 100%, up to it's core-depth. The Indian Govt.(a Govt. for the World's more than One Billion and 300 Millions of the peoples, almost as one-...read more

by Chris Leach

When is an insurgency not an insurgency? When it's been on-going for over 40 years, when increasing regional control vests in the naxalites, and more international organizations recognize the movement. Yet the Indian Gove...read more

by Child Bride

The most effective way for the Indian government to respond to the Maoist rebellion that has been called India's biggest security challenge is to provide more employment opportunities, offer a program to aid the underprivi...read more

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by Lou Jones

Want and need, desperation and despair, breed extremism. Fortunately, there is a cure, and fortunately, India's government claims it is implementing that cure. However, claims aren't sufficient. India's government must ...read more

by Bhumika Ghimire

Behind the glitz and glamor of Bollywood, towering success of Information Technology industry in Bangalore and huge mansions in New Delhi lies an India that very few from the Western world have seen and experienced. Ind...read more

by Lers Thisayakorn

What would be the most effective way for the Indian government to respond to the Maoist insurgency? Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described the Maoist guerrillas also known as Naxalites the biggest threat to inte...read more

by Carole Haynes

Although India had a weak communist party during the 1950's the Maoist movement came about during the Sino-Soviet split. It passed through Tibet from China then to Nepal and into India during the mid sixties; almost coinci...read more

by Susan Gosine

India is hurting. Its people are being terrorized and killed. And the Government is in a quandary to find a solution to quell the wave of violence and bloodshed unleashed across its Eastern and Central villages by the Maoi...read more

by Tharian Mathew

The Maoist is just another name for a radical. The question is why do they spring up if everything is hunky dory as the government of India claims? While most of the main line states have powerful members of parliament who...read more

by Nora Nick Katsourakis

The most effective way for the Indian government to respond to the Maoist infiltration into their government is to suspend all trade with China, Taiwan, and have no further contact with Cuba. A government ba...read more