| Dear Express Explained reader, This past week we wrote about some very important policy, societal and global issues, including a detailed piece on why after almost six decades after the Naxalbari uprising, the armed peasant revolt led by a breakaway faction of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) that spurred a festering left-wing insurgency in India, the Maoist movement is now at a crossroads. We tried to explain the significance of Trump’s executive order assuring US support to Qatar and what the resumption of India-China direct flights from later this month could mean for airlines and flyers. We also had a detailed piece on the tightening of the H-1B norms, its long legal history in the US, and how Indian IT firms were inevitably staring at a looming change. First, the red sunset, and why the Maoist movement is possibly on the decline. Sreenivas Janyala’s timely piece was written in the backdrop of the naxalite movement coming under mounting pressure from the government, with the Union Home Minister Amit Shah having vowed to “end” the Naxal insurgency by next March, while for the second time in a month, Mallojula Venugopal Rao, the ideological head and chief spokesperson of the CPI (Maoist), reiterated that is time for the “cessation of armed struggle” in order to “save the party”. Johnson T A wrote in detail about the long legal history behind the tightening of H-1B norms in the US, and how India IT firms were bracing for change. Over the last decade, there have been multiple attempts in America to regulate the use of the H-1B visas, and Johnson’s explainer captured the sequence of these efforts over the years, and the reasons why. Anagha Jayakumar explained the significance of Trump’s executive order assuring US support to Qatar and the likely motivation behind US president Donald Trump signing that executive order, coming just three weeks after Israel launched surprise airstrikes targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar. Also, as the 2025-26 tourist season gets underway in Goa, why the state battles challenges and social media ‘perception’. Pavneet Singh Chadha wrote an immersive piece on why tourism in Goa is faced with mounting challenges, from taxi monopolies to overcrowded beaches, and the growing perception problem that it continues to battle. Sukalp Sharma explained what the resumption of India-China direct flights could mean for both airlines and flyers, and why industry insiders have been awaiting this, given the high demand for business travel between the two countries. Thank you for reading The Indian Express Explained. There is a large body of explanatory journalism, on a wide range of topics, on our website, and I hope you will check it out soon if you haven’t already. Also, many of our best explainers are now behind a paywall, so I hope you will subscribe. I assure you it will be money well spent. Sincerely, Anil | 
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