October 2007
The Archives
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Naxalite, Published Work
Article: The Rising Naxalite Rage
I wrote a piece for Pragati – a smart international publication covering topics important to India. In it I outline how globalization has forced strategic and tactical evolution on the part of the Naxalites. How it begins: A resurgent Maoist uprising is about to be unleashed on India. Its forces will emerge from the Dandakaranya [...]
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Bandhs, Naxalite, Retaliation
Provoking the Jharkhand Overreach
Approximately 30 Naxalite men and women dressed as Central Reserve Police Force officers, infiltrated an event to murder vocal anti-Naxalite politician Babu Lal Marandi’s brother. When their demands for his surrender were ignored, they fired 100 rounds from their AK-47s into the crowd of 2,000. Marandi’s son and 17 tribals were killed eight others were [...]
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Security Establishment, White Economy
The Officer Exodus and Military Decay
Civil aviation is growing at 18 percent annually and is projected to become a $5.6 billion dollar industry by the end of this year. An input of 400 pilots is needed to maintain this growth, but the private training industry is only able to output 100. Demand created by 80 million passengers in 2015 will [...]
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Environment, FDI, Mining Industry
Orissa: The Public Kidnapping of FDI
10.14.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsPohang Iron and Steel Company (POSCO), the third largest steel producer in the world, is in the process of booting up a $12 billion dollar iron ore project in the state of Orissa. This marks a sharp 400% increase in the upper limit of foreign direct investment (FDI) making it the largest instance of foreign [...]
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Global Transmission, Social Systempunkt
Searching For The Social Systempunkt
10.13.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsOpen source intelligence indicates that Harkat-ul-Jihad-i-Islami (HuJI) is responsible for the recent attack on the Sufi shrine in Ajmer in Rajasthan as well as several other recent bombings: Jama Masjid. April 14, 2006. Delhi. Two nearly simultaneous bombs at this prominent mosque resulted in 14 dead. Shab-e-Barat. September 8, 2006. Malegaon. Three bombs interrupted a [...]
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Black Globalization, Environment
Fueling Illicit Wildlife Trade Networks
10.13.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe buying and selling of illegal wildlife is estimated to be a 12 billion dollar industry. Due to common clandestine supply chains, this black market is closely linked to other illicit networks: drugs, persons and arms. The going rate for a poached leopard or tiger on the eastern coast of India is $50. A forest-dweller [...]
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Black Globalization, Weapons
Missing Explosives
The 25% of 22,000 explosives facilities that were inspected by the government of India report the following has gone missing between 2004 and 2006 – likely absorbed by the black economy and available to the highest domestic or foreign bidder – 86,899 detonators 20,150 kilograms of slurry explosives 52,740 meters of fuse 419 kilograms of [...]
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Black Economy, Mining Industry
Experiencing The “Life Tax”
Shankar Sharma experiences one of the ad-hoc existential toll-booths that pop up on open transportation networks where the Mining/Naxalite/Black economy nexus is active. We were driving back from a sales trip into the (further) interiors in the stockist’s car when a bunch of gray boys, in their mid teens, formed a human chain across the [...]
India’s Naxalite Rage
Shlok Vaidya analyzes the far-flung implications of a shifting Indian security environment with a focus on the globally-connected Naxalite insurgency.recent entries
- Firing Los Federales
- Estimated Cost per Naxal? ~$5,000
- Indicator: Madhya Pradesh’s Missing Explosives Convoy
- The Business of Terrorism
- India’s Hidden Innovation Engine and its $35 Tablet
recent comments
- Shlok Vaidya: Hmm. I’ll check my huge backlog of files to see if I can pull anything up. I had read a couple...
- Eric Randolph: I very much agree with this view, reliant as the Naxals are on the willing participation of...
- neil: Atleast they are helping the poor people God will bless them, were in india all politicians making money.
- siman: Dear Friends, Please Share your basic view regarding the naxlite increasing in india,bcoz we all know the...
- Zuo Qing: Thanks. It wasn’t really apparent in the article itself.