Red moon rising
Almost a decade ago as I fell asleep on a warm summer night in Pune; cozily, as the air outside was calm and it felt safe to breathe it in. Today as the warmest of summers in decades grips our nation it is my mind that singes more than the skin. How can our government mutely sit as the Mao-Naxal terror spreads its dark cloud over central India? Why is our army holding back on a full fledged operation against the terror militia?
All I can say is it is through no fault of theirs that innocent lives are being held for ransom in Chhatisgarh; a state that has put bureaucratic machinery into place to ensure an even more equal and socialist governance. I don’t think the Maoists’ actions are any longer in keeping with the ethos they lay claim to. The center should really take some strong steps to curb this violence meted out to citizens, soldiers, doctors, engineers and other officers, who brave it all in the name of our country against a cause gone berserk.
