Siddharth Varadarajan of The Hindu was last seen publishing an etiquette guide for the world from a Maoist perspective. Now he is offering lessons to India and Nitin of The Acorn decides to teach him some statecraft
It is not as if negotiations haven’t been tried in India. They have. That they have not led to the Naxalites dropping dogmatic armed struggle and entering mainstream politics tells you where the problem lies. It is understandable that Mr Varadarajan is heady with vicarious triumphalism due to the success of Nepal’s Maoists. He should restrict himself to savouring the moment. As for lessons in statecraft, there’s a lot that Maoists—on either side of the India-Nepal border—have to learn.
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Anoop Saha
Apr 26th, 2008 at 1:19 pm | #
What with the political rhetoric? What does “an etiquette guide for the world from a Maoist perspective” mean? Is it supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing? Is the perspective implied of maoism as an ideology or political movements?
JK
Apr 26th, 2008 at 5:20 pm | #
It means an explanation of how the world should behave to the Maoists. In Nepal, Maoist ideology and political movement are one, so the perspective does not need to depend on an either or.
Null
Apr 27th, 2008 at 6:42 am | #
We should read only the knickerwallah perspective according to jk