Thanks a lot for starting this thread sense. I wanted to discuss this with someone. I think Shivani's response is a joke. She is seeing everything is a wrong perspective. Here is why I am saying so. She said she wanted to go to maoist affected area for her college research. She says she was warned against doing so, but she wanted to research the 'plight of women in war afflicted zones'. A very good start. But what did she expect when she was heading out there? That she would be treated like a supermodel and be given a nice red capet walk around the maoist affected districts? That she would be gracefully allowed to observe maoist's atrocities and write her neat little paper on how brutal the maoists are and how bad the state of women are there and blah blah? I think maoists did the right thing. The showed her the state of women firsthand. The showed her how innocent people are charged of crimes they have not committed and then punished. They showed here how there is no chance of ordinary people voicing their resistance or even mere opinion. They showed her what fear meant and how maoists are using fear to rule people. They used all the tricks they used to lure innocent people to their traps. They invited her for a 'kurakani' and then held her in captivity. They did not pretend to be something else in front of her, they showed her who they were. and after that they released her. She should have been thankful that she was not tortured, raped or killed. And now i think she has a very good idea of who maoists are and they have provided her sufficient information to write a really good research paper, which might even deserve an A+. But instead she makes all this hue and cry as if she is the only victim of maoist's accusations and starts blaming this and that.