“Red Corridor’s Mystery: How Bharat’s deadliest insurgency was kept alive for decades”, Swarajyamag, May 28, 2025:
“In May 2025, when security forces eliminated Nambala Keshava Rao, the Maoist commander behind some of Bharat’s worst massacres of security personnel, it should have been a moment of national closure. Yet, the CPI and CPI(M) denounced the operation as “extra-judicial” and “inhumane.” That response wasn’t merely distasteful; it was revealing.
It exposed the deeper mystery that continues to haunt Bharat: how has an ultra-violent, armed insurgency that began in the 1960s not only endured but continued to inflict damage for over six decades?
This is not the story of a resilient rebellion. It is the story of a movement repeatedly rescued by politicians who used it, governments that tolerated it, and intellectuals who romanticized it…….”
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