Category Politics

Ciaran Jenkins: What role do politicians have in shaping – and responding to – the violence? Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick sparked outrage today by suggesting people should be immediately arrested if they shout Allahu Akbar – the Arabic phrase…

Deep inside the forests of Bastar in southern Chhattisgarh, Maoist insurgents drawn from local Adivasi communities have been locked in a low-intensity war with the Indian state for nearly four decades. This year, Chhattisgarh police claim to have made a…