"Mao and Chou En-lai were great leaders. Your Nehru was not."
The year was 1966. The Cultural Revolution was at its peak, and both the Naxalbari upris-ing as
Trying to ride the state's coattails to power, Pakistan's ageing Maoists concede that they misjudged the nature of their country and population.
Down at the Anarkali
The philosophy of "Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse Tung-Thought", which caught the public's imagination in Naxalbari 30 years ago has now moved south to the forests of Andhra Pradesh.
…the battle must break out again and again in ever-growing dimensions, and there can be no doubt as to who will be the victor in the end – the appropriating few,
When the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) declared a "People´s War" in February 1996 and attacked police posts in some areas in the Nepali hills, it came
In the more impoverished parts of South Asia – from the western hills of Nepal to the badlands of Bihar, in the forests of Andhra Pradesh or the marginalised hinterlands of
What started out as class war on behalf of the proletariat has degenerated into gang war in support of landlords and petty politicians.
Maoism is no longer flagging its little
The four past secretaries general of SAARC include Abul Ahsan from Bangladesh, followed by Kant Kishore Bhargava from India, Ibrahim Hussain Zaki from the Maldives and Yadav Kant Silwal from
The British sailed away on 30 June, but the Chief Executive of China´s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Tung Che-Hwa seems to have made up his mind about the
The demands being made by the Gurkha Army Ex-Servicemen´s Organisation (GAESO) of the British Government raise intricate questions that reflect the complexities that arise when one country recruits another´
If the best of a commodity happens to come from the Himalaya, should it trade more cheaply in world markets than lesser brands simply because it is South Asian? Despite