Maoists/ Naxal rampage in Lalgarh

Participated in the TV-TimesNow debates on Monday, 22nd June 2009 in two programmes:
i) the first at 9pm on Centre banning the Maoists' organization specifically – in which I was pitted against Varavara Rao a human rights activist who has been a long time supporter the Naxal movement in Andhra Pradesh; and then…
ii) in the NewsHour debate of 9.30 with co-panellists ex-IB chief Ajit Doval and human rights activist Gautam Naulaka – as far as I am concerned, covering the same ground that I already did in the earlier discussion – so I was content letting Ajit Doval hold fort which he did marvellously, intimately knowledgeable as he was with the subject. Only, with the likes of Gautam Naulaka on the debate, nothing fruitful is likely to ever result as he believes in soliloquies not wanting anyone to interrupt when he speaks, but himself not following what he preaches - consequently it totally became a shouting match between Doval and Naulaka like it usually is when Naulaka is pitted against me alone. An infructuos debate...

Comments

Hari Kak : on 24 June 2009
It was a coincidence that I saw you participating in a discussion on the T.V on Monday evening.
You were forthright in assessing the situation and it's fall out. You did not spare the Human Rights Activists for their negative role
Some time earlier I had seen you on a similar programme. Though you made your points very well, I got a feeling that you were rather restrained in taking on the bleeding heart rep of H.R. Was it because you did not want to be impolite to a lady? She irritated me so much by her ceaseless talk and qualified sympathy for the innocent Victims.
Best wishes. And keep fighting.