OPINIONDISSENT, CIVIL LIBERTIES AND INTERNAL SECURITY RHETORIC
"Dimaagi Naxal" Criminalises Thought, Not Conduct - and That Is the Escalation
The phrase "dimaagi Naxal," used in a formal Independence Day address rather than a campaign speech, has drawn scrutiny for defining the threat category by the act of critical thinking ("dimaag") rather than any alleged connection to armed insurgency, unlike the earlier "urban Naxal" framing used around the 2018 Bhima Koregaon arrests.
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