ARTICLE: "In India, Death to Global Business: How a violent—and spreading—Maoist insurgency threatens the country's runaway growth," by Manjeet Kripalani, BuisnessWeek, 19 May 2008, p. 042.

Another reason, it seems, why India won't catch China: it still has radical Maoists while poor China does not!

Here's the danger, though:

Just when India needs to ramp up its industrial machine to lock in growth—and just when foreign companies are joining the party—the Naxalites are clashing with the mining and steel companies essential to India's long-term success.

Maoists in Nepal and India, while China and Vietnam go über-capitalist.

What a world! What a world!

More seriously, "shining India" has got a real Gap situation on its hands, mostly centered in the East.

Funny, the Western navy in Mumbai was always considered the Brit/US version, and the Eastern navy (I honestly don't know where it's based) was always considered the Soviet version. I guess the politics skews that way too.

New Delhi, we are told, treats the 12k armed and 13k sympathizer population as a law & order problem.