I find it interesting when people ask where were you when the villagers were being extorted. Leaders are born because they have to face direct hardship. It's just the way things are. You are not going to start to feed yourself when you see others hungry around you. Hunger has to affect you before you start thinking of how to feed yourself.

The same way, I see Ashu and other members of the media more concerned about the direct act of illegal harassment of a private company by members of the ruling government. The comparision of atrocities in villages are not even comparable here since back then the Maoists were not the government whereas now, they are and that's why it makes a big deal when people who are in the government are involved in physical beatings for not following their orders.

The "tipping point" mentioned by Pire is for those who have lost hope and are now willing to be slaves of the Maoist government. The tipping point that Ashu and lot of other democracy loving people are experiencing thesedays is the point whereby we are not going to stand quietly while the Maoist government does whatever they want without any respect for human rights or for democratic rights of the people.

This is serious times and we cannot listen to the likes of Pire and Nepe, the latter of whom still belive in the hope that his Maoists masters are going to come through and work for a better democratic society, while the former is preaching everyone to accept maoists no matter what they do.