So,Where did the buck stop?

The operations against them, they start again.
The Para Military Forces camp the jungles, making their presence felt again,
The Naxals have their strategy in place again, and the brave jawans fall into a great ambush all over again,
The nation at the breakfast table mourns the barbaric murders of the great men again ,
Fathers. husbands ,brothers and sons travel back home in majestic State Coffins again,
Hail! The Minister! owns up to the “Moral ” Responsibility.. yet again!,
The news channels air the massacre again and again and again...
until Everything is normal again,.. until life moves on again
And The operations against them,...they start again.

A friend recently aired his views on a certain social network about the strategy that 'should be' against the Strategy that 'is' ,in dealing with the Maoists' war against the Indian State. In a matter of minutes he had managed a number of responses criticizing his position on the Indian State resorting to Machiavellian tactics to deal with the insurgents. The responses were all from friends and acquaintances who ,like the civil society of modern times ,wanted India to be patient with these under privileged and misguided youth and gradually align them to the mainstream. A noble thought indeed, and I would admit that is the most just thing to do under the watchful eyes of a vigilant International community, The Rights groups and such activists . I am also perfectly aligned to the massive underdevelopment debate that does its rounds in the Civil society meetings and concerns the Educated and the Elite. Dialogues indeed, could save the situation for both the State as well as those who want to usurp it. However, no one's talking beyond this.

In the aftermath of such a barbaric massacre of men brings onto the front some pressing concerns and questions:
What happened to the Government's call for a dialogue with the anarchists? Why aren't the Naxal leaders ready to give it a try? Why aren't the civic rights activists and groups coming forward to broker a truce between the warring parties? What explanation do the Naxal sympathizers like Arundhati Roy and Mahasweta devi have to this bloodbath? What are the 'questions' they have for the government now? And just when, are they going to be part of the solution?

While we can have all the civilized debates of this world about a strategy to deal with this threat to India's internal security, any such exercise would be futile unless the interests of the stakeholders around this issues are upheld. The speed-bumps encountered in such an effort to arrive at a consensus would be manifold. The biggest among them is the policy line to be towed, the question of whether to continue being the 'Soft' State, or confront the insurgents with brute force? The more real problem of identification.. just who is an insurgent and who is the innocent villager? A major hurdle in zeroing down to an action plan is the bipolar alignment of Center-State relationships in India, and the consequent reluctance of the states to implement non populist policies formulated by the center. Then, there are other issues of human right violations, matters of crimes against humanity et al.

It is indeed a complex web let us admit, and let us also assert that no single strategy would work like it did elsewhere and neither would it satisfy every stakeholder circumscribed by the menace. Any strategy that emerges out has to be multi-pronged, from confronting the extreme insurgency with force if need be so that the insurgents do not go into a killing spree like they did in Dantewada and several other places recently, to dealing with the moderate factions of the such groups with Soft power and ensuring their long term rehabilitation.
Any such rehabilitation has to be a long time exercise , from the immediate concerns of food, shelter, education and a respectable living to the long term exercise of inclusive growth and nation-building.
Such an assertion is more likely to cover lost ground than the ones that are prevalent ,where actual groundwork has given way to political chaos and strategic confusion.

The men at the helm of the Indian home affairs and the ones handling the states need to think out of the box to arrive at something that works real time and something that is not just food to destructive populism. The negative development and steep inequality meted out to all such remote areas(which now form the infamous Red Corridor ) of the Indian federation are amongst the concrete reasons that fuel such hatred against the political sovereign. As responsible pressure groups, the civil society which cries foul at every step the government takes, needs to be the bridge that joins rather than the one which divides. It has an important role to play in any truce that has to be brokered between the state and the anti-State forces so that all stakeholders can participate in working out an intelligent and workable solution to put an end to these unspeakable acts of violence, mutilations, and innocent deaths.

I wouldn't take too long, because any amount of black and white would only be on papyrus until implemented. There are just two sets of innocent people who lose their lives, the insurgents who are baptized by the fire of false propaganda and the innocent men in uniform who are just 'doing as directed'. Let us not get carried away with the ideology and what nots of the Naxalism or any such Marxian deviation. There is no ideology to such acts of madness. Had there been any, probably the biggest naxal leaders would perish fighting for it instead of the small timers.
There are probably a zillion ways to interpret this conflict of interests, and one could use any nomenclature to describe the 'battle' between the State and the Stateless, the bourgeois and the proletariat, the lords and the serfs , the state and non-state actors or between status quo and total revolution, but there might just be one solution to end the barbarisms such classifications unfold . And that one solution, has to be engineered sooner than ever, before another Dantewada happens.