The map below clearly busts the myth of the "Red Corridor". True, the map, apparently based on the report submitted, about two years back in April 2008, by the committee appointed by the Planning Commission in 2006 and headed by D Bandopadhyay, is slightly outdated; it does not include West Medinipur (and also Bankura and Purulia) in West Bengal, where Lalgarh is situated (and, on the other hand, includes e.g. Gondia in Mahrashtra and also districts in the northern part of Chhattisgarh etc.).
But what comes out clearly that there is no continuous "corridor" from the South extending to Nepal. Not even anything remotely resembling that. There are two distinct large clusters and (much) smaller patches strewn somewhat in between. Just a manufactured paranoia to justify draconian actions against myriad militant democratic popular struggles. And the Maoists themselves lapped it up for too obvious reasons. http://epaper.indianexpress.com/IE/IEH/2010/01/28/ArticleHtmls/28_01_2010_009_005.shtml?Mode=1 [image: loading] -- Peace Is Doable
