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  1. Blame the government, not the police

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    / August 11, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By M V Bhaskara Rao   I write this at a time when the police force is under fire from all sides, it would appear. The Supreme Court has said those police officers who indulge in fake encounters should be hanged. The police action in Maharashtra today where men in...

  2. Will Andhra fight Chhattisgarh’s battle?

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    / June 10, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Last night, Maoists in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh blew up an anti-landmine vehicle and killed three constables and seven special police officers. The police party had travelled to the area in Bastar region, on specific information of Maoist movement. But the guerillas took them by surprise, striking at night. The...

  3. Binayak gets bail, not relief

    Posted by Varavara Rao
    / April 15, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Varavara Rao   I am not fully happy with the manner in which Dr Binayak Sen has been granted bail by the Supreme Court today. It is only a minor relief because the apex court has ruled that the conditionalities should be fixed by the lower court in Chhattisgarh....

  4. Where Maoists and the Middle class meet, briefly

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    / April 13, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Nityanand Jayaraman In the three days that I was travelling and away from the TV, my fellow citizens had plotted and enacted a revolution, and I missed it. When I returned, our nation’s moral conscience that resides inside 24×7 idiot boxes had already inspired thousands of middle- and upper-class...
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  5. Red in the face

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    / February 26, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By T S Sudhir One thousand steps back. A retrograde step.  That is how a senior IPS officer who cut his teeth fighting naxals in Telangana and Chhattisgarh the last decade and a half reacted to the decision to concede Maoist demands  in return for the safe return of Malkangiri...

  6. Orissa government is not sincere

    Posted by Varavara Rao
    / February 18, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Varavara Rao   As I write this, Bhaskar, the Andhra-Orissa Border (AOB) Secretary has appealed to the cadre to extend the deadline for Malkangiri collector, Vineel Krishna. The legitimate demands of the Maoists have been put to the Orissa government and the ball is now in its court.  But...

  7. Kidnapping the state’s authority

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    / February 17, 2011 / 1 Comment
    It was Christmas eve of 1987 when the then N T Rama Rao government in Andhra Pradesh was shaken by the news of eleven state government officers (seven of them of IAS cadre) kidnapped by the naxals (then called the People’s War). It was the first time that abduction as...

  8. A naxal lawyer who the police listened to

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    / January 1, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Andhra Watch The year was 1985. N T Rama Rao had won the assembly mid-term elections with a landslide majority of  200 seats. The police unleashed a reign of state terror on naxalites after NTR’s  ‘sambandhi’ (Daggubati Venkateswara Rao’s father) Chenchu Ramaiah was killed in Prakasam district.    As we travelled in a general, unreserved train compartment, civil rights activist  K...

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