Tag: Naxalbari
Vidyasagar’s statue demolition: The Naxal vs Hindutva fascist dichotomy
Reading Time: 10 minutes It’s imperative to do a comparative analysis of BJP’s smashing of Vidyasagar’s statue vis-a-vis the demolition of statues by the CPI(M-L) workers in 1970.
What is the Urban Naxal Story of Modi-fied India?
Reading Time: 10 minutes Ever since the Pune Police arrested five activist-intellectuals: Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Sudha Bhardwaj and Varavara Rao, and accused them of being “Urban Naxals” conspiring against the Modi […]
The Spring Thunder That Refused to Cease
Reading Time: 5 minutes The spring thunder over India blazed for the first time in May 1967, 50 years ago, in a small hamlet of Darjeeling district of West Bengal called Naxalbari. Since then, […]