Dilip Simeon

Not tainted ‘opportunism’ but conscience subjugated by ideology is what stands between idealism and the Leftist. Choosing empathy over polemic may turn the tide, leading to reconciliation instead of the familiar spiralling of crimes and suffering.

A teenager’s journey from Delhi’s St Stephen’s to the starving hamlets of Bihar and the killing fields of militias is a personal history of the Naxal upsurge

Three men fired up by Naxalism in the 1970s are just detached watchers now

The major left currents have never rejected the practice of political assassination.

A book that exhorts India’s planners to see its poor as human beings, not as ‘factors of production’

Naxalism recruits victims of progress. This is a warning.

A half-baked reader that ignores Gujarat and concentrates only on internal organisation

A hint at the need for a different paradigm to the debate, but no exit routes yet

A historian should incorporate uncomfortable facts in his argument. Zakaria avoids them.

'A public declaration by the Maobaadis that they will stick to their demands but will give up violence can electrify the situation.'