Seventy-six jawans who were on duty to fight the antinational and barbaric Communist terrorists in India were killed in an ambush and the Home Ministry says "there was an element of failure."

This is not the time for a blame game. I wrote before too, "Support Chidambaram's war," though the Home Minister dithered in between and gave wrong signals to the Naxalites, hoping that they would listen to him and his badly produced ads.

In a way, the Indian polity helps fissiparous tendencies. It's mired in taking revenge on Amitabh Bachchan and making a tamasha of a nikah, which is strictly a matter between two interested persons.

Such a polity can issue carbon copies of the previous statements of sham condemnation but can't instill confidence in the citizens and the security forces. Ask Raman Singh, the brave face Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, who has been struggling hard to tackle the Naxalite menace amid a volley of attacks by Dilliwala Naxalites, who accused him of being harsh on the barbarians, and almost killed his Salwa Judum through false allegations.

So far the government hasn't spoken about taking the war on the Communist terrorists to its logical end. Neither has it announced a free hand to the security persons to find, flush out and annihilate the cowardly terrorists who have become a bigger threat to the nation than the Pakistan-supported jihadis. It should be doing that immediately.

Home Secretary Gopal Pillay has rightly questioned "not only the CPI (Maoist) but also those who speak on their behalf and chastise the government' as to what was the motive behind the attack and what is the message the CPI (Maoist) intends to convey?" The jholawala supporters of the Naxalites should also be booked for instigating murders and sedition.

They are all Communists. They swear by Mao, Lenin and Stalin. Their loyalties are extra-territorial. Their sources of inspiration - all of them have smeared their hands in the blood of innocent people - from Lenin, Stalin and Mao to Pol Pot. And they have thrived so far in spite of having killed more than 6,000 Indian citizens and security personnel because there is a powerful lobby in Delhi which portrays them as revolutionaries and puts pressure on the government not to take any stern action.

When a publishing house like Penguin chooses to publish a book of so-called poems of a jail inmate, a known supporter and the voice of the mass-killer Naxalites, Varavara Rao, what can be expected of the morale of those who are supposed to take on the barbarians to protect the Constitution? There is a socially desensitized section of the neo-rich enveloped in Anglo-Saxon traditions that has taken upon the "responsibility" to romanticize the butchers and win dollar awards.

They are the writers, filmmakers and poster boys of the glitterati that find it fashionable to safeguard Maoists and have them as an acceptable phenomenon in a society that's described as (a positioning to justify the murders) 'ridden with corruption, administrative lethargy, rich class insensitive towards the poor and the downtrodden', etc.

So the logic is, if there would be so much of political and administrative injustice to a large number of poor, they would, rise in revolt. Yeah, sounds good. Doesn't it? Poor revolting against the rich, burning their bungalows and establishing a just, fair and Communist reign of the proletariat!

Like they did in Moscow and saw the disintegration of the Soviet Union? Like they did in Cambodia and saw the mass murder of 25 percent of the population? Like they did in China and saw millions killed and ultimately a Communist regime giving way to the market forces? There is not a single place on this earth, including the haven of the Red revolutionaries, West Bengal, where they have been able to establish a small corner that portrays the model success of their revolution.

There are bad roads, dilapidated schools, no industrialization, poverty-struck labor class and the fattened Commissars. That's the end result of their struggle. Naxals too become rogue armies, blackmailing gullible villagers and their kids to join their ranks, destroy schools, public health dispensaries and roads. They are, in the words of Chidambaram, just criminals.

This must make Indian citizens to sit up and ask the media and the government some inconvenient questions. Did the Sania-Shoaib controversy really merit front page when the nation's Foreign Minister was in Beijing negotiating the country's most sensitive issues? Did Penguin do the right thing by publishing the so-called poems of a barbaric supporter of the mass murderers, giving him and the book a halo of revolutionary spirit, thus according the criminals a social sanction?

Those who mock at the patriotic people and heroes like Savarkar, decorate gun runners who kill citizens with a sadistic pleasure? That lady, Arundhati they say is her name, with a penchant for laughing at the beheading of security personnel like Francis and eulogizing in her inimitable de-Indianized style the savagery of the Naxals must be charged with sedition and supporting mass annihilators.

Who were those seventy-six killed by the Naxal? And who felt happiness seeing their dead bodies? Who were the bereaved families and who were negotiating electoral alliances and secret pacts with the killers? The rebels or the antinational insurgent groups called Naxal, Maoist and Red revolutionaries have been working in 220 districts in 20 states and the government has established a special cell to monitor and resist them.

They have created a Red Corridor from Tirupati to Pashupatinath. Help from China to Nepalese Maoists to them has been suspected by Indian intelligence agencies. They are working against India and it's a war, in real sense. Still the rebels prove weightier than the patriotic jawans, who had nothing in their mind except to protect the citizens and the Indian constitution? Why?

So far this is a skeleton of some official statistics describing killings of Indians by Naxals:

1996: 156 deaths
1997: 428 deaths
1998: 270 deaths
1999: 363 deaths
2000: 50 deaths
2001: 100+ deaths
2002: 140 deaths
2003: 451 deaths
2004: 500+ deaths
2005: 700+ deaths
2006: 750 deaths
2007: 650 deaths
2008: 794 deaths
2009: 1,134 deaths

Why the sacred forces of the state die like cattle unsung and often insulted like it happened in the case of Inspector Mohan Lal Sharma and pilgrimages are organized to the homes of the terrorists in Azamgarh but none to the homes of the patriotic soldiers? Why it helps to be a terrorist in Delhi to remain safe and have civil rights committees to organize interviews in magazines and channels and its often embarrassingly deadly to be soldier, with none coming to hear their woes and interview the mother of the martyred?

It is this Naxalism that needs to be crushed. They don't remove poverty through guns. They use poor to help their luxuries.