Interview in Mumbai Mirror, March 6, 2007

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Is this the beginning of a civil war?

Day before yesterday (March 14, 2007), the police in communist-managed West Bengal wanted to evacuate villagers from a land and create space for a large MNC to put up its project. In the effort, the police ended creating another "Jalianwala Baug" and killed 11 innocent villagers and injured several more.

As an obvious repurcussion, naxalites killed 55 policemen in Chhatisgarh yesterday (March 15, 2007).

Just wanted to share this with you - if we do not look at the economic development of rural areas of this country, the above-kinda instances will only increase.

With the government promoting contract farming and corporate farming, we can only imagine what will happen over the next 5, 10 or 15 years. We just cannot afford to turn a blind eye to the economic development of rural India, where 70 % or 70 crore of our people live.

I wont be able to do anything significant by myself.