How Maoism lost the battle & what’ll keep it down

When Amit Shah set March 31 as the target to eliminate Naxalism, it signalled a moment of unusual confidence in India’s long battle against leftwing extremism. Yet, the story of its decline is less about a single deadline, and more about a slow, uneven recalibration of state strategy – one that has steadily narrowed both the geography, and the intensity, of the conflict. Read full story on TOI+



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