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Naxalites of the Communist Party of Maoist [CPI (Maoist)], Maoists in short, seem to be resurfacing in Karnataka. The killing in an encounter of Vikram Gowda, on November 18, 2024, in Eedu village, Karkala taluk of Udupi district, further confirms t....

November 25, 2024 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , Karnataka , Maoists. Naxalites , CPI , Communist Party of Maoist , Maoist area

Dantewada Naxal Attack: A Calculated Cowardly Act of Red Terror

Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

सिंहवत्सर्ववेगेन पतन्त्यर्थे किलार्थिनः॥ [Verse from the Yogavasishtam 3.78.6] (English translation: Those who intend to get work done cast themselves on the task with al....

May 03, 2023 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , India , Terrorism , Naxal , chhattisgarh , Maoist , Bastar , Bharat , Dantewada , LWE Extremism , Urban Naxal

Terrorism Studies (National): Review of 2021 & Projections for 2022

Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

Despite the outbreak of the China-origin coronavirus aka COVID-19 in late 2019 and the continuation of this fatal virus spread globally in 2020, the year 2021 has witnessed the continuation in the terrorism-related incidents, linked directly or indir....

January 14, 2022 Terrorism , Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , India , Pakistan , Islamic State , J&K , ISIS , LWE , Punjab , Counter terrorism , AlQaeda , Srinagar

Left-Wing Extremism: Contained but Continues to Exist

Tejusvi Shukla Article

Based on an intelligence input on the night of 02 April 2021, over 2000 security forces’ (SFs) personnel carried out a major anti-Naxal operation in the Sukma-Bijapur area in Chhattisgarh. However, the anti-Naxal operation soon turned to a “surpr....

June 08, 2021 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , national security , Internal Security , insurgency , Maoism , poverty , Naxalism , Red Terror , Urban Naxals , Inequality , Bastar , Abhujmad , Tribal

Maoist Menace Calls for a Different Ball Game

Dr P M Nair Article

The massacre of 37 innocent personnel of the Security Forces (SF) of Government of India and the State Government, on 3rd April in Chhattisgarh, has led to widespread condemnation, even from the Prime Minister. Such mass killing of SF invites serio....

May 13, 2021 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Development , CRPF , Security Forces , Kishenji , Lalgarh , Maoist , rural employment

India’s Maoists: Utility of Counterinsurgency and Futility of Talks

Dr Uddipan Mukherjee Article

There was a flurry of analyses in the wake of the 03 April 2021 clash between India’s Security Forces [SFs] and the Maoist insurgents at the Sukma-Bijapur border region in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.¹²³

April 30, 2021 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Maoists , chhattisgarh , Sukma , Abujhmaad , CAPFs , COIN , foreign arms , IEDs , Mazumdar , MHA , SAMADHAN , WHAM

Left Wing Extremism: The Way Ahead

Left-wing extremism, also called Naxalism, or Maoism has been around since the late 60s. After 60 years, the movement may be down but not out. The UPA government had described the Maoist movement as the greatest internal security threat. In the last ....

October 08, 2020 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Maoist rebellion , governance , Maoism , Maoist insurgency , UPA government , Naxalism , Chattisgarh , Counter-Insurgency Operations

India’s Maoists: Business as usual

Dr P V Ramana Commentary

It has been business as usual for Naxalites of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), even as the country has been fighting the challenge of COVID-19 pandemic. Incidents of violence by the Maoists, efforts at shoring–up their arsenal and extortion,....

June 18, 2020 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , weapons , Maoists , chhattisgarh , Extortion , Sukma

The Maoists, Violence, and their ‘Alternate Revolutionary Programme’

Dr Uddipan Mukherjee Article

As human beings distance away from each other to deny the corona virus any additional mass and volume, the left-wing insurgents in India's dense jungles converge into south Bastar in central India from neighbouring provinces as well as from Nepal

May 06, 2020 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Maoists , Violence , ideology , Charu Mazumdar , CPI (M) , Lenin , Marx , Mao Tse-tung , New Democratic State , dictatorship of the proletariat

Covid-19 and India’s Maoists

Dr P V Ramana Commentary

Even as the country is under a lockdown in the wake of COVID-19, also being referred to as novel Corona virus, alleged sympathisers of Naxalites of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Maoists in short, Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde have been....

April 15, 2020 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , COVID-19 , Urban Maoists , Expansion of bases , Relief from courts , Recruitment