A recent issue of Outlook carried an essay by the celebrated essayist and writer Arundhati Roy on Naxals / Maoists of Dantewada and other hotspots of Chhatisgarh and AP. I suggest you read the essay - it does give you a good picture, though a slightly distorted one.
My take on this essay is carried in the following letter published in the latest Outlook dated April 19th 2010:
www.outlookindia.com: "Arundhati Roy has obviously expended considerable energy in reporting from ground zero, but I dare say that the essay tends to romanticise the Maoist cause. She has conveniently glossed over all the needless murders and incidents of looting, arson and vandalisation these ‘comrades’ have been committing in the name of justice and alternate governance. It also seems from the essay that the whole movement is now itself victim to the adage, ‘the more things change, the more they remain the same’. What with different departments and an elaborate hierarchy, the janatana sarkars are beginning to resemble the same labyrinthine, faceless entities, without spontaneous popular support—much like the system the Naxalites are purportedly fighting against.
RAHUL GAUR, GURGAON"
2 comments:
very well written.Sometimes according to me these so called activists and human right activitists fail to understand the real plight and comment or act to the situation more to be in limelightamong their peers and rationalists rather than showing the candle to the darkness of reality.
Please change the backdrop since it is hard to read the posts.
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