The nation should weap since this was foretold yet no action was taken instead we are busy fixing the match of Sania!
Why is that our nation takes interest only if it is a terrorist attack?
Have we not lost more lives to the naxals?
Aren't the lives of our policemen and others valuable?
I think it is time Maoists are shown the door. They don't want talks since they seem to have an agenda of their own. Stop them before they sacrifice more tribals for their cause.
"Maoist uncle, what is our mistake that you blow up schools and deprive us of education? You may have problems with the police but we fail to understand why are we your enemy? What is our mistake that our schools have become a soft target for you." Wonder how Arundhati Roy will react to
this open letter written by hundreds of school children of Bihar's Aurangabad district to Maoists waging war against the state.
After targeting railways and mobile towers, Maoists have blown up more than 20 school buildings in various districts of Bihar, at least 10 in Aurangabad district, only because they can be used by central para-military forces.
Great way to ensure that people remains 'equal' and dependent on forests, as they have been for thousands of years.
Arundhati, will you please ask Maoists to spare India's children?
This week was spent glued to news channels featuring stories of those affected by the terror attack in Mumbai on 26/11.
Barkha Dutt interviewed Home Minister Chidambaram who emphasised that violence of any form must not be tolerated. But when someone asked him why he was not taking action against the Naxals who had attacked policemen, he calmly explained that they were Indians too, and India being the land of Mahatma Gandhi, it was not right to attack Naxals. Barkha quickly pointed out that Gandhiji would have been at the spot speaking to both factions and demanding peace! Chidambaram, of course, did not offer his other cheek; he simply said: "I am not Mahatma Gandhi".
It is at such moments we realise how much we miss a Gandhi who can get warring factions to talk and avoid meaningless violence.
