A Tale of Sorrow

The latest extermination of a company of security personnel by naxalites is an aggrieving incident. There must be of course another side to the story. The CRPF was continuing its operation against maoists who retaliated with an ambush.

In a war both sides end up losers. The side calling itself victor often does so after suffering huge losses.

The Indian Express and other newspapers recently carried pictures of wailing family members at the cremation of their lost ones. A child is shown weeping unconrollably at the funeral of his father. What fault is there of the child, one may ask, that he bids adieu to his father on his final ascent to the Heavens, at so tender an age? What kind of a world is this that goes unconcerned about its day-to-day affairs without so much as even pondering on the plight of others.

Although I sympathise with the squalid living conditions of people whom the state might have cruelly neglected, I think their are better ways of bringing noitce to them than taking to the route of violence. One must also disapprove of the reported police brutalities against captured naxalites and innocent villagefolk who have nothing at all to do with such movements.

Whereas the permanent solution to it lies in the effective implementation of the welfare schemes in the deprived areas, there must also be created a consensus among the naxalites for their political inclusion in India's polity. This should help to end the decades long grudge against the state.