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Instead of eradicating poverty, the current Indian establishment has, it seems, decided to eradicate the poor from society. (pic source)

By Dinesh Wagle
This article was first published in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here’s the PDF version of the page.

Things are happening so late in India. This I say from the Nepali perspective. The dominating Indian political discourses in the past several days have been increasingly sounding like the ones we used to have at the beginning of the current decade. The government here has decided to combat the spreading Maoist insurgency putting the prospects of talks on the backburner, and the deliberations have been all about that. These debates, mainly taking place in the most influential, city-centric and English language media, are heavily tilted towards the hawkish government stand. “These terrorists,” shouted one network editor the other evening, “must be neutralized. How can a government talk with killers?” Continue reading →