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The Goebbelsian propaganda of Maoist sympathisers posing as ‘intellectuals' should not deter the state from launching an all-out offensive against the guerrillas
I am not suggesting that Facebook users are necessarily representative of public opinion, but for whatever they count, the networking site reflects the urban professionals' mind to some extent. Therefore, I was heartened by the significant number of comments on the site asking why Arundhati Roy and her ilk are silent after the Dantewada massacre. Some even demanded that these breast-beating publicists come out in the open and condemn the Maoist marauders. I was tempted to respond to the outraged middle-class Facebookers that far from being shamed, this anti-India cabal is probably busy plotting an eloquent defence of the merchants of mass murder; so, expect a 5,000-word tear-jerking essay in a newsweekly soon suggesting that the CRPF jawans committed mass suicide or were killed by agents of the diabolical Indian state just to give a bad name to the Maoists.
This line of argument would be perfectly understandable from people who had alleged that the December 13, 2001 attack on Parliament was an elaborate conspiracy by the Vajpayee Government to justify warmongering against ‘peace-loving' Pakistan and even more ‘innocent' terrorist outfits sponsored by Islamabad. Similarly, hasn't it been repeatedly claimed by some of them that the 58 kar sevaks who were burnt alive inside coaches of the Sabarmati Express in Godhra were actually possessed by pyromania and a burning (pun unintended) desire to go up in flames? So, it won't be surprising if we are told that a bloodthirsty Government gunned down its own security forces only to justify launching a genocidal military campaign against helpless tribals.
In a brazenly Goebbelsian style of propaganda, these self-styled human rightswallahs and various wannabe Arundhati Roys have started using Maoist and tribal as synonyms. This is a deliberate attempt to portray all action by the state against Maoists as part of a plot to terrorise innocent tribal people into submission so that their lands can be grabbed for mining or setting up industries, their women can be happily raped and their children brutalised. That the overwhelming majority of tribals in all Naxal-affected States are actually fighting Maoist depredation and that the bulk of the security forces, especially policemen of the States concerned, are of tribal origin are facts consciously overlooked.
The aim is to put the average urban Indian on a guilt trip and mount public pressure on the Government to slow down or even call off the armed confrontation with the Maoists. These conspiratorial bleeding heart ‘intellectuals', most of whom have little knowledge of history or even Communist literature, obviously don't know the contempt in which Mao Zedong held their kind. As a senior columnist recalled last week, Mao called "intellectual" supporters of his revolution, "Useful idiots, but idiots all the same"!
Fortunately, the breast-beaters' plot is not succeeding this time. Opinion is, in fact, running high against the desperadoes and from all accounts people want sterner action to eliminate the scourge of Left-wing adventurism, which none other than the father of the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Illych Lenin described as "infantile disorder". So, I have been telling my friends not to get too agitated by the offensive, anti-national utterances of these professional India-baiters. Over the years we have dealt with a whole range of lily-livered liberals who, if they had their way, would have gifted away the North-East, Punjab and Kashmir to India's neighbours and even now advocate restraint in dealing with jihadi terrorists, perhaps also the Taliban. India survived the onslaughts of its ‘intellectual' Fifth Column and I am confident will do so yet again.
Last update : 12-04-2010 00:09
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