The single menace of the growth in ultra leftist ideology in the Indian sub-continent bears an eerie resemblance to the growth and fall of the erstwhile Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. India, one of the most heterogenous and free countries of the world may not be the ideal hotbed for establishing a single minded ultra radical leftist state, nevertheless the callousness and lack of governance resulting from the disparate ideals, politics, demography, ethinicity and education makes it a prime candidate for “survival of the fittest” albeit in the context of communities. “Higher”er the social “stress”, more prone is the community to radicalism and in my home country stressed societies are not a rarity. The peasantry ignored, mindless capitalism and a single minded insane race for money has perverted the social psyche of the walled urbanity that the cities have started denying the existence of the “real” India, my country of poor people, is now a country of the once promised. The Maoists are living in a strange paradox, opposing development on the one hand but drawing oxygen from the development dissatisfaction of the local people. They plan to overthrow the goverment by 2060 and god save us all from the aftermath. Reminds me of Ghosh’s chilling depiction of the Khmer Rouge in perhaps one of the greatest political documentaries penned in this new century. I for once do not want to be a Dith Pran in my beloved country.
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