Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam

by Vivek Agnihotri

So, an invisible Naxal-intelligentsia-media-academia nexus works as strategic fortification with the ultimate aim of taking over the Indian State to achieve Maoist rule. They have identified Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad as the Golden Corridor. Delhi-Kanpur-Patna-Kolkata as the Ganga Corridor. And KKTs (Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu) Chennai-Coimbatore-Bengaluru as the Tri-junction.

these ideologues who have kept the Maoist movement alive and are in many ways more dangerous than the cadres of the People's Liberation Guerilla Army,’ the affidavit says.

provoking Dalits to take up arms

three kinds of urban mass organizations:

From the urban network come logistics, moral and intellectual support, and the ideological argument for violence. The network is in several cities and sympathizers occupy prominent positions.

Jawaharlal Nehru University, Hyderabad Central University, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Allahabad University, IIT Madras, Jadavpur University are the citadels of urban Naxalism.

caste conflicts in Bihar, resentment against landlords in Andhra, discontent against forest laws in tribal areas, unemployment amongst youth and radicalism among Muslims are all given the prescription of capture of power through the gun as the ultimate solution of all their problems.

Mao Zedong had said, ‘The final objective of the revolution is the capture of cities, the enemy’s main bases, and this objective cannot be achieved without adequate work in the cities.’ The charismatic Che Guevara too opined: ‘The importance of the urban struggle is extraordinary.’

Salwa Judum, which was a militia set up with the approval of the government to counter the Naxals, caused the displacement of more than fifty thousand families in Chhattisgarh alone.

Salwa Judum has been alleged for practicing vigilante justice and their activists have been held responsible for heinous crimes like torture, rape, and non-judicial executions. In many Naxal-infested areas, there has been a visible nexus between Naxals, Salwa Judum, the police, and contractors.

the big-five terror group consists of the IS, Taliban, Boko Haram, al Qaeda, and the Communist Party of India (Maoist).

I wonder why Naxals are called rebels or insurgents and not terrorists.

Naxals are terrorists and Urban Naxals are intellectual terrorists,

In an interview in 2007, Ganapathy, the Secretary-General of CPI-Naxals asserted, ‘We see the Islamic upsurge as a progressive anti-imperialist force in the contemporary world. It is wrong to describe the struggle that is going on in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Kashmir, Chechnya as Islamic fundamentalism. Our party supports the Islamic upsurge.’ Commenting on the 26/11 massacre of Mumbai, Bimal, Politburo member, was quoted in Hindustan Times, saying: ‘We do not support the way they attacked the Victoria station, where most of the victims were Muslims. At the same time, we feel the Islamic upsurge should not be opposed as it is basically anti-US and anti-imperialist in nature. We, therefore, want it to grow.’

Varavara Rao, referring to North-East insurgencies, stated on May 13, 2007: ‘This is a time for all revolutionary, democratic, and nationality movements, like the ones in Kashmir and the North-East, to unite and something will come out of this unity’.

I have no doubt in my mind that Naxalism is the biggest threat to India, bigger than Pakistan and China. Such links are not possible to maintain from the jungles of Dantewada. Where is their strategic hub?

(NCR) as the most active urban Naxal centre.

Kobad Ghandy from Delhi, allegedly responsible for recruiting people from urban centres. More recently, Hem Mishra, a student of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, was arrested by Maharashtra Police for allegedly helping Naxals.

His arrest followed a search at the residence of G.N. Saibaba, a professor at Delhi University.

Since Sonia Gandhi's politics align with the left, it is but natural that most of these people are Naxal sympathizers.

The 'ecosystem' that Sonia Gandhi has nurtured consists of such intellectuals, eminent journalists, historians, and above all NGO heads.

To further the military objective of the revolution, the Naxals surely would strengthen their cyber-warfare strategy. This is where students are most effective. They are cleverly using universities and colleges, which attract students from weaker sections, as easy sanctuaries for insurgents to thrive in the cities.

My loyalty is to the inner vision. There is no other way work of artistic worth can be done.

The days of the narrative that people pick up guns because of oppression and haplessness are over. Guns today are an organized business. With profits.

The Times of India of April 11, 2010, reported: ‘The Jawaharlal Nehru University campus became a battleground on Friday night when members of disparate student organizations clashed over what was seen as an attempt to support the Naxalites and “celebrate” the massacre of 76 CRPF men.

can feel in my guts that the next biggest threat to India’s internal security is going to come from our campuses.

Hyderabad Central University (HCU), IIT Madras, JNU, Osmania University, Jadavpur University, Delhi University, Bhagalpur University to name only a few.

a senior IPS officer from the Andhra cadre explained to us how urban Naxalism is seeping into our cities faster than we can imagine. ‘In the cities, the frontal “mass organizations” are generally manned by ideologues, who include academicians and activists, fully committed to the party line. Such organizations ostensibly pursue human rights related issues and are also adept at using the legal processes of the Indian State to undermine and emasculate enforcement action by the security forces. They also attempt to malign the State institutions through propaganda and disinformation to further the cause of their “revolution”. Whenever an incident like this happens, a sympathetic media protects them by blaming the forces. What they don’t know is that the forces are extremely professional now and do not indulge in civilian contact.’

The details of internal links within mass organizations in urban areas were found in documents seized from Delhi University English Language Prof GN Saibaba.

Urban areas are important for Naxals to get cadre which has the skill set to perform military tasks, plus they become critical in order to develop international network, local intelligence, medical aid to rural guerrilla force, transit facility and cyber warfare.

the most dangerous terrorist. The Urban Naxal.

Despite the independence, democracy, judiciary, development, NGOs, social workers, a vibrant civil society, and above all, the longest and the most violent movement for social justice – the Naxal Movement, nothing has changed for the tribals in the forests of Bastar. This is the saddest commentary on our post-independence growth story.

Bastar – an area which has not changed in thousands of years.

Predictability is what kills a film.

how Salwa Judum forced the tribal to go to their camps.

how Naxals took away their young kids, trained them with guns when they had no idea why they were killing people.

‘Camp’ is the dreaded word.

When you are driven, you can't see the dangers ahead.

For some feminists, the entire movement rests on hating men.

in Bollywood, new trends, and technology are always shown in a very narrow context.

My father was the only educationist amongst them. I remember, many IAS officers’ wives used to run pottery or handloom workshops, where they would get poor potters or weavers to create products to be sold in exhibitions as a formality and the remaining produce, the bulk of the total production they would sell to their husband’s department. No other country can match us in inventing novel ways of corruption.

In India, people fight with all their might to kill an idea.

What does any young boy do when he is angry and frustrated? When he thinks injustice has been done to him? He drinks and he has sex.’

‘The Maoists kill people, saying that they are police informers. They killed one man, who was doing good work on health and education, because he had a cell phone, and was, therefore, a police informer. Everyone has a cell phone these days. Will they kill everyone?’

Eric Berne's Games People Play

In general, I don't like parties. Besides being too noisy and fake, they also screw up the next day.

Those who are good actors look well-fed and successful.

They say God lies in details. I learn that sometimes God lies in the third folder.

Swara

she sang revolutionary songs, which at that time I didn't know were propaganda songs of Naxals.