‘Urban Naxal’ is a label to terrorise intellectuals: Prabhat Patnaik

‘Urban Naxal’ is a label to terrorise intellectuals: Prabhat Patnaik

Poster campaign, Jun 2020

The Telegraph / by Subhoranjan Dasgupta

Neo-fascist regime working towards ‘destruction of thought’
The government is reportedly planning a crackdown against “Maoist intellectuals operating front organisations in the cities in the guise of NGOs and civil rights organisations”, months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for the eradication of “Naxalism”, whether “the ones with guns or the ones with pens”.
But who are these so-called “Urban Naxals” and why does the government consider them so dangerous? Social scientist PRABHAT PATNAIK explains in this interview with SUBHORANJAN DASGUPTA, professor of human sciences.
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Also read:
From Anti-National to Urban Naxal: The Trajectory of Dissent in India – How the term Urban Naxal came to being (Newsclick / Sep 2018)

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