1. Is India hostage to Maoists?

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    The first collector of the newly-formed district of Sukma, Alex Paul Menon, clearly hadn’t read how his senior in the IAS, Vineel Krishna in Malkangiri district of Odisha was kidnapped last year. Following pretty much the same pattern of sending Maoists dressed as villagers, Alex, a 2006 batch IAS officer,...
  2. Kidnapping the state’s authority

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    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...

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