In every nation’s history, there exist cowards who hide behind revolution-inspired vocabulary while cheering for the enemies of their own country. In India, these ideological freeloaders—commonly dubbed urban Naxals—have repeatedly crossed the line from dissent into something far uglier: celebrating terrorists, whitewashing killers, and sneering at the martyrs who defend this nation with their lives.
This is not activism.
This is not intellectual courage.
This is not dissent.
This is betrayal—loud, shameless, and poisonous.
When Afzal Guru Was Executed, They Didn’t Mourn Justice—urban Naxals Mourned a Terrorist
The 2016 JNU slogan episode didn’t just shock India—it exposed an ideological sewer that had been festering for years. When Afzal Guru, convicted by the Supreme Court for the Parliament attack, was executed, many Indians felt justice had finally been served.
But what’s of the ecosystem of the urban Naxals?
They romanticized him.
They elevated a terrorist to martyrdom.
They spun elaborate fantasies about “injustice,” ignoring the mountain of judicial evidence.
To them, a convicted terrorist was a “victim,” and the Indian state—the one that grants them freedom, rights, and platforms—was the villain.
This level of ideological rot would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous.
Burhan Wani: The Terrorist Poster-Boy These Ideologues Tried to Deify
When Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was killed, India heaved a sigh of relief. Here was a militant who recruited youth, preached jihad, and plunged Kashmir into bloodshed.
But the narrative machine of urban Naxals went into overdrive. Suddenly, Wani wasn’t a terrorist. He became a “misguided boy,” a “martyr,” a symbol of “resistance.”
Their sympathies lay not with the Kashmiri civilians living in fear,
not with the soldiers braving bullets,
but with the man orchestrating violence.
It takes a special kind of ideological blindness to mourn a terrorist louder than his victims.
Urban Naxalism has that blindness in abundance.
Hidma: Maoism’s Blood-Soaked Commander—and the Urban Narrative That Sanitizes Him
Maoist commander Hidma, responsible for some of the most barbaric ambushes against CRPF and state police forces, is a man whose hands drip with the blood of Indian soldiers. His attacks in Sukma, Dantewada, and Bastar left families devastated, children orphaned, and communities shattered.
Yet every time Maoists massacre soldiers, groups of urban Naxals do emerge predictably:
“State oppression!”
“Inevitable backlash!”
“Root causes!”
Not a single tear, not a single word of condemnation for the butcher of Bastar. Instead, they sanitize Maoist brutality, dressing up mass murder as “class struggle.”
It is perverse.
It is sickening.
It is treachery disguised as scholarship.
Celebrating Soldier Deaths: The Moral Rock Bottom
Screenshots and archives from social media circles of urban Naxals, as a suave tone tied to these ideologies have shown celebrations when Indian soldiers are killed—especially in Maoist or terror strikes.
Celebrations.
Of. Soldier. Deaths.
It’s hard to imagine a deeper moral collapse.
These are the same soldiers who die unflinchingly so that these armchair revolutionaries can pontificate from cafés and campuses about “freedom of expression.”
To dance on the graves of security personnel is not dissent. It is the dictionary definition of despicable.
Echoing Enemy Propaganda: A Willing Fifth Column
Urban Naxals thought leaders often synchronize effortlessly with the propaganda of hostile nations:
Pakistan screams “fascism”—they repeat it like loyal echo machines.
Separatist fronts push fake genocide narratives—they amplify them internationally.
Maoist propaganda paints terrorists as victims—they adopt the rhetoric wholesale.
They do the PR work of India’s enemies without being asked. No paycheck needed—ideology is sufficient incentive.
This is not criticism of the government.
This is not activism.
This is ideological collaboration with adversarial forces.
Dissent Is Sacred; Glorifying Terrorism Is Profanity
India’s Constitution guarantees dissent—and rightly so.
But let us be crystal clear:
Dissent does not include lionizing terrorists.
Dissent does not include celebrating the murder of soldiers.
Dissent does not include amplifying enemy propaganda.
Dissent does not include rewriting terrorists as revolutionaries.
When ideology of urban Naxals demands that a person cheer for Afzal Guru, Wani, Hidma, or Maoist carnage, it stops being ideology and turns into a moral, intellectual, and patriotic bankruptcy.
India Must Treat This Not as Debate, but as an Ideological Attack From Within
The solution is not censorship.
The solution is unmasking and exposing these narratives for what they are:
romantic fantasies of revolution detached from ground reality
intellectual posturing built on anti-India sentiment
propaganda that sides with killers and undermines the country’s defenders
India doesn’t need fewer debates.
India needs cleaner debates—ones not polluted by celebration of terrorism and contempt for national integrity.
The mindset of urban Naxals deserves no pedestal, no romanticization, and no free pass. It deserves to be called out, ridiculed, and intellectually demolished for what it is: a parasite that feeds on the freedoms provided by the very nation it despises.
