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The long shadow of depraved ideologies—from Maoism in Nepal to ISIS

Dehumanised minds, devoid of social responsibility, are a matter of concern. Sprung from excess against the armed forces, they remain perpetually predatory.

The tragedy of Nepal continues to reverberate across mind space, landscape, as well as time zones across the world. Its scale is far bigger than a mere Himalayan flood, glacier collapse, or the toll of thousands dead and missing. It is the latest symptom of a far larger global problem, one that makes its presence felt periodically, largely through water-borne excesses. Ironic, since the spectre of a warming earth is supposed to create water shortages across continents. Doubly ironic that despite a terrible tragedy, base human actions come to be repeated, even in Nepal.

Despite heroic stories of rescues and recoveries, there have been reports of people stealing jewellery and other valuables from the dead. While this is not new, at least not in a global context, a keen Nepal observer has squarely placed the blame for this “moral decay” on armed conflict and an ideology skewed from basic human principles. He wrote on X: “This level of inhumanity was taught by the Maoist ‘people’s war’.”

Nepal was engulfed by a brutal Maoist insurgency for over a decade, and atrocities were........

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