All states should learn from Andhra and defeat Maoists on their turf

As details of the Darbha massacre filter into the media, one thing is obvious: there was a comprehensive failure at every level to adhere even to the most basic security norms in the prevailing situation. There has, thereafter and much before, been a great deal of talk on strategy and tactics, on 'holistic' and 'multi-pronged' approaches. But the ground reality is that we haven't even got a basic grip on the day-to-day tasks, the most rudimentary processes, the a-b-c of policing itself.

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