Naxalism

There are no Zamindars today,

Who are they fighting in the tribal areas?

Why is it that after four decades of struggle,

Neither have the rebels achieved their objective nor have the tribals been empowered?

Why is the government not being able to stop this oppression?

Where do they get money from?

Are all those intellectuals who openly support the Naxal movement on national TV, righteous people?

Nehru brought in a socialist vision,

He brought in huge dams and public sector heavy industries,

The intermediate beneficiaries were these new factory owners who were hand in glove with corrupt officers and maneuvered tenders in their favour,

Lots of movies have a reference to some government officer's visit for inspection,

How the factory owner would treat him with goodies, women, and wine.

Whenever the Naxal issue pops up, people start discussing the politics behind it,

Some are on the side of the oppressors,

Some on the side of the oppressed,

But discussions always remain at the circumference,

Very rarely do we talk about the centre,

The tribal, who everyone is fighting for.

This is not the Naxal movement I knew of,

In a story of oppressor versus oppressed, we tend to look for a Robin Hood, the hero,

In independent India’s story, media has tried to make Naxals look like Robin Hood,

So incidents like the Niyamat and Valsa murders are rarely reported in detail,

If reported, they always put the blame on the state,

Niyamat and Valsa were from the minority,

They were fighting oppression, injustice, and corruption against the marginalized section of society,

They were working for the same cause as Naxals,

Then why were they killed?

Hell is not a place,

It’s a state of mind,

A fakir walks barefoot in scorching heat,

Sleeps on a pavement,

Yet sings a song admiring the beauty of the world.

The CPI (Maoist) has openly expressed its solidarity with the J&K terrorist groups,

These ties are part of their ‘Strategic United Front’ against the Indian State, The CPI (Maoist) also has close links with foreign Maoist organizations in the Philippines, Turkey, etc.

As soon as you enter a university, we witness a radical and communal face of Communism,

They propagate the weaknesses and evils of Hindu culture,

They manipulate and twist ancient books to misrepresent them and provoke students,

They use Tulsidas’ chaupai, without mentioning the rest of the Ramcharitmanas, which is the real context,

Dhol Gavar Sudhra animal woman, officer of gross chastisement,

The above lines are spoken by the Sea Deity Samudra to Ram,

Lord Ram got angry and took out his weapon,

To evaporate the whole sea, the deity appeared and said the above lines in the context of boundaries created by God himself in order to hold his creations.

What Leftists do is that they very cleverly translate it literally in Hindi,

Ramcharitmanas is written in Awadhi,

The same word means one thing in Hindi and another in Awadhi,

The literal meaning of the line in Hindi is ‘Drums, the illiterate, lower caste, animals and women deserve a beating to straighten up and get the acts together’,

It's real meaning in Awadhi is different,

In Awadhi, tadna means to take care, to protect,

Whereas, in Hindi, the same word means punishment, torture, oppression,

Samudra meant that like drums, the illiterate, Shudra, animals and women need special care and need to be protected in the boundary of a social safety net,

In the same way, the sea also needs to reside within the boundaries created by God,

Samudra gave the suggestion to create the iconic Ram Setu,

Shudra doesn’t mean lower caste or today’s Dalit,

It meant people employed in cottage industries,

I remember there is a book by R.C. Dutta, Economic Interpretation of History,

He has said that when the Indian economy was based on the principles of Varna, handicrafts accounted for over twenty-five percent of the economy,

Artisans and labour involved in the

handicraft business were called Shudra,

If there was so much caste-based discrimination, why would Brahmins use their produce?

Both Dutta and Dadabhai Naoroji have written that the terminology of ‘caste discrimination’ was used by the British to divide Indian society on those lines.

Sister Valsa kept trying to work against the criminal nexus led by the Naxal,

She was seen as a stumbling block to their evil aspirations,

A mob of fifty armed men, out of which over thirty were Naxals, broke into her house and hacked her to death.

If there is a heaven on earth, it's here, it's here, it's here,

Silver Tips Imperial Tea – the world’s most expensive brand of Darjeeling tea,

What is hell after all?

When we think of hell we think of suffering everyone is suffering,

Nobody cares,

Nobody respects,

Nobody loves,

Nobody helps,

You can’t trust anyone,

If that’s not hell, then what is it?

There are beasts all around to devour you.

There is a holiday in the Northern states,

In Karnataka, it’s a working day,

There is a thirty-three page essay by Arundhati Roy on the issue yet it doesn't smell of the jungles,

It smells of her,

It stinks of her agenda,

Why, I wonder?

Why is it that most of the op-eds and essays from the so-called intelligentsia comprising editors, professors, historians, political analysts, social workers, NGO entrepreneurs, humanitarians, and civil society leaders favour the false Naxal?

Every product and service which you create has to contribute to people’s lives,

People are emotionally invested in it.

We do not support the way they attacked the Victoria station,

Most of the victims were Muslims,

At the same time, we feel the Islamic upsurge should not be opposed,

It is basically anti-US and anti-imperialist in nature,

We, therefore, want it to grow.

They exploit women on the pretext of women empowerment and propagate free sex,

I am not against free sex,

It should be out of free will,

Not a condition to be part of their revolution,

Most of them come from orthodox backgrounds and sex works as an incentive and a bond,

That’s how they create a large intellectual ecosystem.

Why do we love making speed breakers?

Maybe it’s a subliminal reflection of our system’s psyche that thrives on creating as many hurdles as possible on our way to success,

More hurdles mean more corruption,

More money for the law enforcers,

Prabhu turns the car to the left and makes another quick left,

Seems he has taken it upon himself to prove that Kolkata is indeed a city of the Left.

I felt I was back to where I belonged,

An India where success doesn't lie in money,

It lies in surviving the complex India, The difficult India, the corrupt India, The honest India, the oppressed India, the feudal India, a regressive India and a progressive India,

It's poor,

It's filthy,

It’s hard working,

It smells of struggle, of co-existence, of sweat,

It's diversity, it's disparity, the chaos, the conflict,

The aspirational India, the ignored India, the defeated India... The real India.

Naxals don't want any development in their area,

They don't want the children to be educated,

They don't want roads to be built,

They want tribals to remain in the dark,

To achieve this perverse end, they can go to any extent of violence, even if it means killing an infant,

A four-month-old baby was killed in a Jan Adalat in front of her mother as her father was a suspected police informer,

Naxals burn mark sheets and transfer certificates of 10th and 12th students,

They cannot go for further education and migrate from their villages.

Met some students in Nagpur who do not go to their villages,

Their families come to Nagpur to meet them,

Naxals burnt fifteen vehicles of contractors who were building roads,

They believe that roads will eventually lead to development,

Dalit Patru Durge was killed,

As he was taking government help to get lift irrigation in his village,

In India most girls are raped, molested and groped in crowded places,

It's strange.