LETTERS

This is with reference to your report

(April 25). The conflict between the State and the Maoist rebels is not a law and order problem but a socio-economic one. Adivasis believe that the State is not a defender of their rights, but a partner with big corporations in dispossessing them, which may have led them to accept the Maoists as their champions. The Centre will be welladvised not to intensify the combat but to tackle the root causes of the left-wing extremism.

G. David Milton Maruthancode, Tamil Nadu