What started off as a strand about that terrorist Baburam was skilfully manoeuvred into a highly jaundiced discussion on the army’s imperfections that basically labelled our soldiers as the terrorists and the Maoists as the saviours - no doubt the Maoist high command have been made proud by such sophistry on the part of some interlocutors. But such venal efforts hardly matter. Whether one describes oneself as “super independent”, “super very independent”, “super objectively really independent”, the fact remains that Baburam, his wife, Hisila, his boss, Prachanda, and the rest of the Maoists are terrorists – it is really that simple. The tragedy for the Maoists is that the only way ahead for them is oblivion and compared to the LTTE’s leadership, their elimination will be a mere footnote.