In a hard hitting article, senior BJP leader Vinay Sahasrabuddhe has said:
"They (Dimagi Naxals) do not recognise Indian traditional knowledge systems, but take pleasure in pooh-poohing it. Talking about heritage and traditions amounts to backsliding in their view".
He also says: "Machiavelli is superior to Chanakya and Shakespeare to Kalidasa. They relish describing Ganga as Ganges and Hanuman as monkey-god. They care two paise for India’s ancient culture, much less for Ramayana and Mahabharata.
"If you eulogise these epics, they would brand you as sectarian", writes Sahasrabuddhe in his column to 'The New Indian Express'.
He also diagnosed that though difficult to pin-point, a large numbr of them have entered media and academia.
Thus he wrote: "Unlike the mostly-forest-dwelling Naxals who openly espoused violence, urban Naxals and dimagi Naxals provide intellectual arsenal.
Whether it’s the Congress, the BJP, or any regional party in power, they oppose government systems—openly or clandestinely. They try to be seen as anti-establishment even when they themselves take advantage of the establishment at times.
"The PM’s word of caution is timely, too, as Naxals and their sympathisers are increasingly getting frustrated. But though the reference hit a chord, like urban Naxals, it’s not easy to identify 'dimagi Naxals' —a term that may be loosely translated as ‘thought anarchists’.
Many such people have made deep inroads into media, academia and intelligentsia."
Dr Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, who also served as the President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) from 2018 to early 2024, further says:
"The first and the most dreadful symptom is an oblique acceptance of violence and anarchy as pathways towards revolution.
They may not openly indulge in violence, but somewhere down the line, they also don’t entirely reject violent ways.
Naxals indulge in open violence and dimagi Naxals try to theorise on it.
They believe violence is essential to establish deterrence. It was Charu Mazumdar’s conviction that “he who has not dipped his hands in the blood of class enemies is not worthy of being called a communist”.
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He further notes:
"Destruction is the key to this so-called revolution.
Dimagi Naxals believe in abiding by what B R Ambedkar described as the “grammar of anarchy”.
In a passionate appeal at the last meeting of the Constituent Assembly, Dr Ambedkar had said, “Now that we have constitutional methods at our disposal, we must use them to obtain the socio-economic objectives set for our country.”
"Yet, while proclaiming themselves as parts of the civil society, dimagi Naxals turn a Nelson’s eye on many things uncivil and indecent. According to some of them, the more aggressively one uses cuss words, the greater revolutionary he or she is."
The former Rajya Sabha MP defines quite accurately -
"All those who consider patriotism a bad word essentially belong to the category.
They are even more set against the notion of cultural nationalism because, in the Indian context, the mainstream of our culture flows parallel to Hindu ethos."
Dr Sahasrabuddhe is also quite candid in his observations.
"To many who belong to the category, India is a conglomeration of many nations. Many of them believe that states like Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh should be considered nations by themselves. To them, India became united thanks only to British rule."
"Many of them are hell-bent upon stretching diversity to give fillip to divisiveness and fragmentation-ism. The Indian Army, to them, is an oppressive force.
"They are convinced that holding candles and marching along the Indo-Pak border will help withering away the frontier."
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