Dehradun, Sept. 7 -- Naxalites killed four people in a remote Chhattisgarh village on Saturday after a verdict delivered by a so-called people's court. These four were involved in the construction of a road that the Naxalites oppose. (Development activity is anathema for them.) Another three persons are reported to have been abducted. This is the consequence of a twisted ideology that appropriates for itself the arbitrary power of life and death over innocent civilians.
It should be noted that the umbilical cord that sustains these monsters runs from an enabling environment in Urban India, which provides not just sustenance but also the ideological justification for such acts. This is why, those who describe 'Urban Naxals' as 'social worke...