[Reader-list] Fw: Gautam Navlakha - a Maoist?

[subhrodip sengupta]

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Glad to know that we recognise these people were a sore to the governments eyes, specially when one talks about displacement, mass violence, and other things which the government tries to have monopoly over . . . . . . . 
And they were working for and releasing scholars like them who tried to manage the violence by taking it to the democratic front. Raid any of these houses and tell me how many rocket launchers, or plans of implanting bombs you find. Then how can we call them terrorists. Police had the licence to utmost brutality with or with government order, is a political servant, and yet policemen are not a member of political force, yeah technically they are civilians. Unfortunately I find Maoist has become a new political weapon to charge non-muslims in India. Instaed of targetting violence mongers who blurt out non-sense and imagined incidents for political power at rallies, target intellectuals. These people were basically shamming the government, and for that release of people like Binayak Sen they irked the Government enough to be pin-pointed and targetted.  NO, Fidel Castro also jailed poets, only he was more humane, and he never called them terrorists. I
 am sad that of late the political system has driven (and some parties, off course enabled) maoists to fetch rocket launchers (from Indian Army or China?).  Acting without thinking shall never solve the problem, so what good shall arresting instead of consulting individuals do? I am as well irked by the problem of mis-directed violence, and  displacement due to maoists, but for a change once Crpf is deployed, what is Salva Judum doing? Itching the sore can only make it worse.  Nor does Exclusive politics isnt helping.

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From: anupam chakravartty <c.anupam at gmail.com>
To: Prakash K Ray <pkray11 at gmail.com>
Cc: reader-list at sarai.net
Sent: Wed, 24 February, 2010 1:51:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Gautam Navlakha - a Maoist?

a survey of Maoists backed with facts from Ministry of Home Affairs
written by Navlakha himself:
http://www.internationalcentregoa.com/southasia/maoists%20in%20india.pdf

-anupam

On 2/24/10, Prakash K Ray <pkray11 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Certainly not. The three persons mentioned in the FIR are more or less
> Monks, not Maoists. They came to know about Kabad Ghandhy through
> newspapers, and they read about Maoists in the newspapers kept at the
> neighborhood barber shop. RDF has nothing to do with the Maoist Party. It is
> not its Front organization. It is only involved in encouraging people to use
> less plastic and less tobacco. As far as Committee for the Release of
> Political Prisoner is concerned, it is only involved in the campaign to
> release the pickpockets who are forced to pickpocket due to the
> unprecedented rise in prices. So they fall under category of political
> prisoners.
>
> Gautam is a baul singer.
>
> Down with the false charges.
> Happy Holi.
>
> Regards,
> PKR
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