Apropos Devangshu Datta's piece, "World War III" (July 9) would it not be more reasonable to compare the ongoing wave of random killings by a few fanatic Islamic volunteers attached to or inspired by the Islamic State with those during the Naxalite uprising of the late 1960s and early 1970s in Kolkata?
Apart from creating worldwide revulsion and sorrow among the family and friends of the victims - often, also the family and friends of the perpetrators - will any of these random killings lead to any result whatsoever?
Why encourage an effort that can yield no result by giving it a grand name?
Alok Sarkar, Kolkata
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