In the pursuance of knowing Jharkhand better, I am traveling length and breadth of the state. Though the reason of travel is pure business related, but during my official tour to various places, a new India crops up in front of me from some bushes or village or town. I have sensed / found this new India at almost every turn of the road, road side, in city and village and everywhere I have gone. A new India with a totally new world, new traditions, new philosophy, new customs. Every time I experience a new India, I feel surprised of the way people are operating. Just the basic soul is same and that's makes a subset of India with a totally individual circle of life. An India inside India, sometimes Bharat, sometimes Hindustan but basically same India that every citizen carries in his heart, knowingly or unknowingly. The country with huge diversity, fragmented unity. But a nation that is unique in world in every aspects.
Since last 2-3 years, I have got my posting in places that bears similarities in terms of following same philosophy of living. The philosophy that is mostly being followed, volitionally or forcefully, by those citizens who feels or forced to feel that governance is there in India to exploit them. The citizens who have better knowledge of world around them, the only issue is their world is very small and surrounds only those whom they know. Beyond their world is a group of people who exists to exploit them. People call it communism and we Indian have a Neo - Communism philosophy called Naxalism. The ultra communists.
I had worked in Chattisgarh and now I am in Jharkhand. Both the states are extreme in this neo-communism or naxalism philosophy. But there is a huge contrast between the same philosophies of naxalism. Whereas in Chattisgarh the Naxals works united and more focused towards their philosophy of opposing governance of the State, in Jharkhand the Naxals are fragmented and there is lots of sub - groups in the same group. They are concern about the basic philosophy of opposing governance but sees entire world as their enemy. In Jharkhand, there are only two types of people exists for them - Naxals or Enemy. And enemies are anyone / everyone who are not naxal. Naxalism in Jharkhand is more of a ways of earning easy money by fearing people. It sometimes seems that these are not just neo - communists or naxals, but are neo - naxals. The philosophy of naxalism seems lost here in Jharkhand.
I was in one of the newly created district of Jharkhand - Khunti. It is one of the harvesting lands of new naxal recruitment. One of the extreme place of Naxalism, so to say. And this place has every reason of following Naxalism. This city was previously being ruled by Kings. They were strong till mid sixty's and were being worshiped by the people of his state. But it is said that there were a big group of people who were having an opinion that the King is a real blood - sucker of his citizen. During that time only the Naxalism philosophy came into existence and this has got an easy ground in Khunti to spread. Geographically also this city was giving them a good hide out due to denser forest.
On 1st June I was there in this town. Our stockist of this town was explaining me their savageness more than business. When I asked the reason why naxals here are more barbarous, he said that there are a couple of different groups of Naxals and the brutal among them are some Dinesh Gope group. They are much into extortion money and ask for "Hafta" from everyone doing business here, be it they are having a small grocery shop or big showroom. If someone refuses to pay the money to them, they even kill them. I said "no no this is not the way Naxals are operating. They are against the Socialist government and whoever is helping government, are their enemy. The one who is doing some business and earning their bread are not at all supporting government in anyways. So how come they are enemy of Naxalism?”
The stockist just smiled on my bookish knowledge. I felt really bad seeing his smile. It was very very sarcastic smile I have ever seen. He said, "Sir now naxalism is no more a philosophy. It’s a process now, process of making money, process of getting into the power, process of re generating the feudal system".
It was strange to see this new way of doing crime. Perhaps now the term Naxalism in most of the cases are being used by some of the anti-social elements to earn his own bread and butter. It has nothing to do with upliftment of lives of deprived people. They are list bother about them, who were the real reason of origin of this philosophy. Neo - Naxalism. Hail Neo - Naxalism.
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