Author: Rahul Pandita
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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. —Jose Saramago
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The government had sent in its forces. But they had not been able to do much. What could they possibly do? Inside the villages how were they supposed to distinguish between a Maoist and a tribal villager? In a number of cases, they didn’t bother to do so. So innocent tribals were picked up, brutally tortured, accused of being Maoists and then put in jail. Or just shot dead after being branded as Maoists. Instead of solving the problem it lent further fuel to the insurgency, more manpower to the Maoists.
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Is it a socio-economic problem or a mere law and order problem? Can it be resolved militarily? Are we ready for the costs? How far are the Maoists from our cities—from seizing power from the State? Is development the only solution to the Maoist problem? Or should military action and development go hand in hand?
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In a Parliament address he called them people ‘who write 33-page articles’, a reference to writer-activist Arundhati Roy who had spent a few days with the Maoist guerillas and written a long essay in Outlook magazine. It would seem that instead of fighting Maoists, the home minister’s whole energy and that of his aides was directed at hurling diatribes at members of the civil society.
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‘The line between a Maoist and a tribal has blurred. So, the Adivasi you saw plucking dead tree branches during the day might turn into a gun-toting Naxal in the night’ The void created by the State had been filled by the Maoists.
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Even as it sends missions to the moon and boasts of being a nuclear power, India has so far failed to ensure that nobody goes hungry.
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While it did increase India’s foodgrain output, the Green Revolution also created further disparities in society.
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While it did increase India’s foodgrain output, the Green Revolution also created further disparities in society. It benefited only those farmers who could afford to buy chemical fertilisers and modern
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While it did increase India’s foodgrain output, the Green Revolution also created further disparities in society. It benefited only those farmers who could afford to buy chemical fertilisers and modern agricultural equipment.
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(The word ‘revisionist’ is perhaps the most commonly used term of censure within the Communist movement, and when one group accuses another of retreating from a particular revolutionary position, it dubs it as revisionist.)
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The Naxalbari movement might have failed but it inspired a whole generation of youth and served as an initiation to radical politics.
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Students from affluent families, studying in prestigious institutions were bidding goodbye to lucrative careers and going to the forests of Bihar and elsewhere to participate in the revolution. For such youth in
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Feudalism is one big factor that contributed to the rise of Naxalism since the beginning.
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the army adopted a plan devised by Harold Briggs, the British director of operations against Communists in what was then Malaya in the ’50s. The army burnt down the tribal hamlets and herded the people into internment camps.
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Upon being asked why the Ranvir Sena would not spare children and women, he said that Hanuman set the whole of Lanka afire, killing all demons including those in wombs.
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incoherent. Later, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The party brought him to their base in Bastar. Because of what he meant to the party, he was kept in good humour, and the senior leaders, as a mark
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Naxals burst Laxmi crackers and the CRPF exhaust their ammunition in the return fire,’ he said.
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Naxals burst Laxmi crackers and the CRPF exhaust their ammunition in the return fire,’