#MeTooUrbanNaxal: India's Answer to Modi Regime
Channel: NewsClickin
Date: 2018-08-31

On August 28, the Pune police arrested Sudha Bharadwaj in Faridabad, Varavara Rao in Hyderabad, Gautam Navlakha in New Delhi, and Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira in Mumbai on charges of Maoist links. With this move, the right-wing governments in the Centre and the State have doubled down on their bid to target those who work in the areas of human rights and civil liberties. However, the witch hunt backfired as Indians were not prepared to buy the establishment's branding of the activists as urban Naxals - a term popularized by a media channel. In her show  'Media Par Khari-Khari', journalist Bhasha Singh talks about what happened over the past couple of days and the kind of democracy we are 'normalising'.