Maoists

India-Nepal: Sins of Omission & Commission

Aparna Pande | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: South Asia, India, Nepal, Nepalese, Madhesis, Maoists, Treaty of Sugauli, Kalapani, China, Gorkhas, World News
Aparna Pande

India's relations with its neighbors in South Asia -- all of whom are smaller in size than India -- have never been amicable and tension-free. India has often acted as the big brother and not taken adequate notice of how its behavior is perceived in these countries.

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Nepal's New Prime Minister Aims To Complete Nation's Peace Process

AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Communism, Baburam Bhattarai, Communist Party, Nepal, Baburam Bhattarai Prime Minister, Maoists, Maoist Rebels, Nepal Maoist, Nepal Prime Minister, World News

KATMANDU, Nepal — The deputy leader of Nepal's former Maoist rebels took the oath of office as prime minister Monday and began forming a governm...

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Life Sentence for Indian Activist Shocks Nation

Betwa Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Naxalites, Maoists, Treason, Arundhati Roy, Binayak Sen, India, Corruption, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Chhattisgarh, World News
Betwa Sharma

The life sentence handed to Indian activist, Binayak Sen, for committing treason has been condemned by the Indian public as well as intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and Amartya Sen.

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Children in Conflicts: Big Challenges, Small Solutions

Betwa Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philippines, Nepal, Maoists, Transitional Federal Government, Security Council, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Somalia, Child Soldiers, United Nations, Taliban, Afghanistan, Sudan, Al Shabab, Al Qaeda, World News
Betwa Sharma

Out of the many insurgent outfits recruiting children, the U.N. has been able to reach out to only a handful. The scale of atrocities dwarfs the efforts made by humanitarian organizations to stop them.

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Are Indian Books Romanticizing Maoist Rebels?

The Washington Post | Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Rina Chandran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Manmohan Singh, Red Alert, Indian Literature, Maoists, Books, Sudeep Chakravarti, Indian Films, Arundhati Roy, Bollywood, Reading, Maoist Rebels, Books News

They have been called India's biggest enemy, but Maoist rebels are also the unlikely subjects of a recent rash of movies and books that some say are r...

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'God Of Small Things' Author Arundhati Roy

smh.com.au | Dean Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Maoists, Authors, Literary Prizes, Arundhati Roy, God of Small Things, Books, Booker Prize, Books News

A Booker Prize-winning author is facing a police investigation over her links with Maoist insurgents behind the massacre of more than 70 soldiers....

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Arundhati Roy's Version of Disaster in "This Year of India"

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Communism, India, Maoists, Radio, Arundhati Roy, Conversation, Gandhi, Christopher Lydon, Capitalism, World News
Christopher Lydon

Arundhati Roy is giving us "the other side of the story" in this "Year of India" at Brown University and elsewhere. Media consumers in the US don't g...

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India's Civil Wars

Mira Kamdar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jihadists, Indian Caste System, Human Rights, Tata Motors, Manmohan Singh, Maoists, Pakistan, Nobel Peace Prize, India, Buried Evidence, Kashmir Conflict, Barack Obama, Kashmir, Bihar, World News
Mira Kamdar

The Maoists have flourished in areas where the government of India has virtually abandoned the rural poor. These populations are completely cut off from the economically vibrant, rapidly growing India.

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Indian Maoist Rebels Kill 27 Police Officers In Ambush

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India Violence, India, Indian Maoist Rebels, Maoist Rebels, Maoists, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News

More than two dozen police officers and a rural police chief were killed in two attacks by Maoist guerrillas on Sunday in Raj Nandgaon, a district in ...

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Fighting Between Indian Troops, Maoists Intensifies (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today India declared the small rebel group of Maoists as terrorists, banning the group under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The Times of In...

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Red Fort Crumbles

Pinaki Bhattacharya | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, CPI (M), Paramilitary Forces, Maoists, Lalgarh, World News
Pinaki Bhattacharya

The Indian Maoists had the good sense not to stand and confront the might of the State, thus avoiding loss of lives, which could only be described as a wanton waste.

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India: Tamil Tigers Involved With Maoist Attacks

The Times of India | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Calcutta, Tamil Tigers, India, World, Maoists, Let, West-Bengal, Maoists India, Maoists Tamil Tigers, Tamil Tigers Maoists, World News

Key Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative Mohammad Umer Madani reportedly motivated and recruited Maoist fighters from Jharkhand and Bihar. ...

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India Cracks Down On Maoist Insurgents

Voice Of America | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India Maoists, Maoist Insurgents, India, Indian Maoist Insurgents, Maoists, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News

A battle has begun in a remote and heavily forested area in the Indian state of West Bengal. Government troops have been sent there after Maoist rebel...

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Why India Cannot Be Run as a Corporation

Pinaki Bhattacharya | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bjp, India, Congress Party, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Politics, Rahul Gandhi, Maoists, World News
Pinaki Bhattacharya

The disparate voices that constitute the vast mosaic of Indian polity provide necessary dynamism to a situation that can often seem impossible to an outsider.

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