Red Affairs by Bibhu Prasad Routray
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Anti-Maoist Operations in Chhattisgarh: Successes and Claims of Successes
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 21 Dec, 2015 · 4949
Conforming to the speculations that New Delhi under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government would adopt a hardline approach against left-wing extremism, a two month-long operation is underway in worst affected Chhattisgarh to di ...
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Countering Left Wing Extremism: Failures within Successes
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 21 May, 2015 · 4878
It is a curious cocktail of bravery, success, and also operational paralysis. Like most incidents reported from the theatres affected by Left Wing Extremism (LWE), the 16 May 2015 incident in Chhattisgarh also has a twist in the tale. In ...
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Return of the Native: CPI-Maoist in Kerala
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 16 Mar, 2015 · 4850
On 7 December 2014, in the first ever incident of its type, personnel of Thunderbolt, the elite paramilitary commando unit of the Kerala Police exchanged fire with a six-member team of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) at t ...
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The Rising Civilian Costs of the State-Vs-Extremists Conflict
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 23 Feb, 2015 · 4841
In 1956, the British authorities fighting the Communist insurgents in Malay granted a lump sum of M$12,000 to a former member of the Min Yuen, the supply organisation of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA). The information provide ...
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IPCS Forecast: Left-wing Extremism in 2015
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 19 Jan, 2015 · 4813
This edition of the IPCS Column, 'Red Affairs', is the precis of a larger document titled 'Left-wing Extremism in 2015', published under the IPCS Forecast 2015 series.
Click here to read the full report .
At the onset ...
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Maoist Attack on the CRPF: Time for New Counter-strategies
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 15 Dec, 2014 · 4777
The 1 December 2014 killing of 14 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district by the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) should invariably go down as one of the country's worst security ...
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Naxal Violence: Challenges to Jharkhand Polls
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 17 Nov, 2014 · 4741
As electorates in Jharkhand start casting their ballot on 25 November, marking the beginning of the five-phase assembly elections spanning almost a month, the threat of left-wing extremism hangs heavy over the poll process. However, while ...
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Naxalites and the Might of a Fragile Revolution
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 20 Oct, 2014 · 4705
On the morning of 18 October 2014, Shiv Kumar, a personnel belonging to the Chhattisgarh Armed Police was pulled out of a passenger bus in Sukma district by a group of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres and killed. Kumar ...
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Six Thousand Plus Killed: The Naxal Ideology of Violence
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 15 Sep, 2014 · 4657
How does one analyse the killings of 6105 civilians and security forces in incidents related to left-wing extremism between 2005 and 2013?
Given that the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), since its formation i ...
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Anti-Naxal Operations: Seeking Refuge in Symbolism
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 18 Aug, 2014 · 4608
The day Prime Minister Narendra Modi unfurled the national flag from the precincts of the historic Red Fort to mark India's 68th Independence Day, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) authorities in Chhattisgarh unfurled the tri-co ...
