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June 18 - June 26, 2020
‘There is no place for alternate narrative!’
They also had a story prepared. Written by Navneet Skeria, DIG, Lucknow. He was on paid leave to do his MBA.
The practice of wooing and appeasement of minority communities was started by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Identity politics today has become India’s biggest socio-political malaise.
She has no idea that the India she lives in is the fourth largest agriculture producer in the world, producing more food than all the countries of European Union combined.
She has not even the faintest idea that while she starves, India wastes as much food as the whole of United Kingdom consumes, which is over forty percent of its total food production.
Naxalism started as a social justice movement, 50 years ago, in a half village-half town in Darjeeling district of West Bengal where some poor peasants forcefully took away land from landlords. The police were called in on 24 May, 1967 and police officer Sonam Wangdi was killed by arrows shot by tribal peasant leader Jangal Santhal and others. The next day, a large armed police contingent arrived at Naxalbari and they fired at the peasants, killing nine women and two children.
Charu Majumdar, a hardline leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M).
Majumdar later quit CPI(M) to form the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) or CPI(ML), which believed in killing “class enemies” to establish the “dictatorship of the proletariat”. The movement came to be known as Naxalism and the young men and women who led this movement came to be known as Naxals or Naxalites.
‘Gar firdaus, zamin asto, ami asto, ami asto, ami asto—if there is a heaven on earth, it's here, it's here, it's here.’
An editorial in People’s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece, called it ‘spring thunder’ and declared it a successful rebellion ‘… a Red area of rural revolutionary armed struggle has been established in India.’ Thus, began India’s longest and most lethal social war.
Naxalism as an underground movement has mushroomed across fourteen states, which are recognized as dreaded dens of ‘Naxalite insurgency’. It is spread over Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal. To a lesser extent, this trend is also visible in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. It is estimated that Naxalites are active in more than forty percent of India’s geographical area, which is known as ‘Red Corridor’. It is now spreading its tentacles in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat. Delhi is emerging as the centre of Urban Naxalism.
In 1978, the Radical Youth League was formed in association with Jana Natya Mandali and Radical Students Union, with 'Go to the village' campaign.
Seetharamaiah,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Hyderabad Central University, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Allahabad University, IIT Madras, Jadavpur University are the citadels of urban Naxalism.
the United Liberation Front of Asom, Nationalist Council of Nagaland, and People’s Liberation Army (ULFA, NSCN,
The Maoist groups of four South Asian countries, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, have joined hands to form the Coordination Committee of the Maoist Parties of South Asia (CCOMPOSA) to advance ‘People’s War’ in South Asia.
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) dates back to the 1990s when it was estimated by the intelligence agencies
the big-five terror group consists of the IS, Taliban, Boko Haram, al Qaeda, and the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), Committee for Release of Political Prisoners, Democratic Students Union, Nari Mukti Sangh, People Democratic Front of India, and Mehantkash Mazdoor Morcha. Many of their members are said to be active in towns adjoining Delhi like Gurgaon and Ghaziabad.
They are reportedly collecting sixteen hundred crore rupees a year, which is big money for carrying out armed insurrection
Democratic Students Union (DSU) and All India Students Association (AISA) organized a meeting to celebrate the killing of 76 CRPF personnel in Chhattisgarh.
In mass organizations operating in urban areas, there are two wings i.e. Strategic Front and Tactical United Front. Strategic Front does not directly deal with the mass population. It encompasses Central Committee and the Maoist Politburo. Tactical United Front deals with mass organizations directly.
Swara's mother heads the film department at JNU. She has grown up in JNU, listening to a certain narrative. Now it's easy for me to understand her stance.
‘Yeh galliyon ke awara, bekar kutte, Kaale, peele, neele sab rangdar kutte, Ki baksha gaya jinko jauke gadai, Zamane ki fatkar sarmaya inka, Jahan bhar ki dutkar inki kamai, Bus truck, train aur tramon mein, Beshumaar kutte! Das, bees, challis nahin, bhai, sau karore kutte!
Vineet Jain can become the world's richest and most successful man, but in my eyes, he will always remain the destroyer of the fourth pillar of Indian democracy. He and his elder brother Sameer Jain single-mindedly corrupted and crippled Indian journalism.
Ask Kanhaiya how he will get us azadi from poverty and Manuvaad and Brahmanism and I am sure he will shift the goalpost. This is why I do not trust Leftists. They only raise questions. Never give answers.
‘Because Leftists don’t believe in borders. This campus has a border. States they fight for have borders. Their houses have borders. But they don’t believe in national borders. They are violent in nature and want to take control with the use of arms. I am against violence. Leftists always play the victim card, cry in the name of human rights, minority, lower caste etc. I am against identity politics. Leftists have a common agenda all over the world. They want to overthrow the democratic set-up and want to take over the control of the country. For this, they use the principle of divide and
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Our roots are in the joint family system. Joint families don’t run on tolerance. They run on understanding and acceptance.
Chanakya, the great political thinker, the great economist of India, said, “Money is the most creative invention of human beings.”
Well, the film ends. I have to say it with deep anguish that Jadavpur is the only university where I didn’t have a Q&A session. Because they believe in only raising questions. Not willing to listen to the answers.
