“The Long March Into Our Campuses: Why The TISS Incident Demands Urgent Reckoning”, Swarajya, October 15, 2025
“शहीदों की चिताओं पर जुड़ेंगे हर बरस मेले..
वतन पर मरनेवालों का यही बाक़ी निशाँ होगा..
These eternal lines, penned by Jagadamba Prasad Mishra ‘Hitaishi’ in 1916, were a clarion call for Indian revolutionaries to join the national movement. They have inspired generations of Indians to seek loftier causes beyond their immediate material existence. These verses speak volumes about how martyrdom moves masses, stirs sentiments, and propels individuals to act beyond their perceived limits.
The Naxalite Left, particularly its intellectual vanguard, has long lived in anachronism and continued irrelevance. Marxism, ironically, applies to everyone but themselves, and while Marx referred to the intelligentsia as parasites, we are now asked to treat these leftist intellectuals as visionaries.
Their movement, being structurally anti-tradition, is incapable of creating its own cultural legacy. Hence, they resort to appropriating larger socio-cultural themes of nationhood and civilisation……”
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