Bassam Javed Honey mooning with the United States has helped India learn the use security forces to squash disturbances and uprisings, a phenomenon that has become too familiar to observe. Instead of focusing on granting rights to its citizenry in the affected areas, New Delhi continues to imbed feelings of alienation in them without regard to its end result. Most of this affected citizenry comprise extremely poor and downtrodden masses belonging to low caste Hindus and other minorities. The struggle to win due rights within in a pluralised society by a faction and their persistent negation by a government either through the use of force or chivalry turns the same into an insurgency. The basic ingredients of this insurgency remain poverty, deprivation and underdevelopment. Indian history is rife with indigenous struggles and insurgencies as it has always been a non-homogenous society where every segment strives to out-do each other for capitalistic gains. India suffers from a great polarisation between rural and urban areas, large numbers of suicides by impoverished and indebted farmers and a spurt in terrorist activities and attacks by various disgruntled organisations and influential groups that harbour extremist views and employ terror tactics in quest of their dreams. Amongst many of the indigenous struggles and insurgencies the keep erupting in India from time to time lies the well entrenched 'Maoist Insurgency. This age-old Maoist insurgency does not appear to wane any sooner as injustices and state terrorism perpetrated by the rich Hindus and the Indian security forces continue in various forms. As per the attestation of Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh, the most dangerous threat to Indias territorial integrity, prosperity and well being has come from the Naxalite insurgency or 'peoples war that is manifest in large areas of eastern, central and southern India. Instead of redressing the grievances of the peasants and workers in the insurgency-affected areas, the Indian security forces in connivance with the rich Hindu-dominated society continue to inflict heavy damage in terms of life and property through state terrorism to deter them siding with the Maoists. Ideologically, the Naxalites are against the Indian state that has always believed in their exploitation by the rich classes of Hindus. Being neglected for their decades old pending rights and wilful deprivation by the Indian state, the movement has fast spread to other areas in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Kerala with massive support for its ideology. As per New York Times report of October 31 last year: Indias Maoist rebels are now present in 20 states and have evolved into a potential insurgency. In the last four years, the Maoists have killed more than 900 Indian security officersviolence erupts almost daily. By sending in thousands of troops, the holistic Naxalite movement has turned into an indigenous struggle against tyranny. India has also allowed certain kinds of private violence as state policy. For example, the government allowed the 1984 anti-Sikhs riots, the Gujarat riots and the Salwa Judum campaign in Bastar, thus depicting its institutional indifference to both peace and war. In trying to put a stop, the Indian government has launched Operation Green Hunt about which most of the Indians must not have had time to know. In fact, this has been the largest military style mobilisation after the known large-scale military deployments that were once restricted to Kashmir and the north-eastern region. This deployment of the security forces primarily has taken place in the central-eastern tribal belt. The operation that involves over 40,000 paramilitary troops and commandos is fully equipped with latest weaponry, including gunship helicopters to defeat the Naxalites militarily. For the purpose, a brigade headquarters of the Indian army is functioning in Chhattisgarh. The idea is to enable the armed forces to take these rebels head on militarily, and to eliminate them without regard to civilian casualties. According to an estimate, the number of tribal people being killed every day has risen to 40 to 50 with some 200,000 already fled their homes. This figure does not include those 50,000 men who had been driven out by Salwa Judum that was lethally armed and funded by the Chhattisgarh government in 2008 and 2009. The tribal people continue to be attacked indiscriminately by the paramilitary forces, private militias and special police officers with strong backing from the state. Today, the civilian death ratio there is one to 10. The scale of the operation and the lethality of the force deployed in Maoist areas are frightening, while the Indian security forces are ruthlessly killing their own people in the name of campaign against Maoists. This is deliberate and considered course adopted by the government without regard to civilian casualties that would be easily categorised as collateral damage. The Maoists themselves have also surged their attacks on vulnerable and ill trained armed sections of state police forces, in retaliation of Operation Green Hunt and insensitivity of the state towards their pathetic state. The latest deadly retaliation by the Maoists came in the morning of April 6 when Maoists in Chintalnar Tar ruthlessly killed 76 CRPF personnel with another large number injured, when they ambushed them. The ease with which the Naxals had gone around killing and subduing security forces without collateral damage has exposed the pitfalls in planning the Operation and its subsequent execution. Though the Operation was launched six months earlier, the Indian security forces have not been able to make much headway. The blame game on this tragic loss of 76 CRPF officers in the Maoist area continues till today in the power corridors of India. Meanwhile, the prevalent euphoria in the Western countries over Indias shinning and rising economic and military power betrays their ignorance of the realities on the ground like the 100,000 farmers suicides. According to the National Crime Records Bureau of India, a huge figure of 100,248 farmers killed themselves between the period between 1993 and 2003. The trend has only seen a surge in that figure. As Sumon K Chakrabarti, an Indian journalist, wrote for TIME magazine that it has been the most significant setback in the undeclared war between the two Indias. The Maoists thrive in the 'other India - the India which is impoverished, left behind as one-fifth of the countrys populace has begun to thrive, while the other 800 million suffer from growing resentment from chronic poverty, live without electricity, roads, hospitals, proper sanitation or clean water The number of suicides that have taken place explicitly negates the fervour that is attached with Indias recent economic performance, policy, society and politics. Yet, the facts do not receive the media attention that these episodes of desperation within the Indian society deserve. The media concentrates on doing 'sunshine stories and the emergence of India as an economic power. Those who blithely call India a 'knowledge society despite a third of the population being illiterate will rave about such 'overdue recognition. The elite will strut about with even more hubris, wrote Praful Bidwai, the famous Indian writer, in one of his columns. Those who falsely project India as a developed state without regard to its declining food security, widespread malnutrition and huge poverty ratios must find time to look at the UN Human Development Index report that places India at number 134 out of 158 nations. The history of riots, civil disturbances, law and order and insurgencies right from 1714 to-date clearly depicts the reality that India has never been an assimilated society. It has always been like living together separately. The government is still adamant not to bring any changes in the constitution that may facilitate adjustment of weaker sections of the society irrespective of caste, ethnicity or religion, as it is tantamount to pursuing the division of the people of India on these lines and areas. There are many Indias in todays India: India of Hindu Backward and other backward classes, India of the Dalit Hindus, India of the Buddhists, and India of ethnic tribals. The compartmen-talisation of various polities has never been as enormous as it is observed today; India appears set for further sub-divisions of what is left of the Indian subcontinent. The writer is a freelance columnist.