The home minister gets it right
Addressing the Chief Minister’s Conference on internal security, home minister, P Chidambaram makes an important point,
We believe in the two-pronged approach of development and police action. However, the naxalites are anti-development and have targeted the very instruments of development – school buildings, roads, telephone towers etc. They know that development [...]
Too much money!
Retributions has previously argued that focusing on development or reward for surrender schemes in Maoist affected areas will be ineffective in absence of security as it is simply too lucrative to be a Maoist these days. How lucrative? The Times of India estimates that the extortion and drug smuggling earns the Maoists close [...]
Cart before the horse
In an op-ed in the Indian Express, Sushant K. Singh and I argue that without ensuring security in Maoist affected areas, government’s development package is destined to fail,
In states where even policemen are shying away from serving in Maoist zones, is it reasonable to believe that the local population would risk their [...]
