‘Urban naxal is something of an oxymoron’

‘Urban naxal is something of an oxymoron’

Frontline / By Ziya Us Salam

Interview with Professor Romila Thapar.
The term “urban naxal” was once used during peasant protests against the state. Today, it is used almost as a slur on those who ask uncomfortable questions of the state. The same fate meets those authors and poets who refuse to sing hosannas to state power.
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