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Quotes from Urban Naxals — Vivek Agnihotri

born 1973 India

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23 quotes

Media czars have lost their access to the corridors of power and to people’s hearts.

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Read the book because some people don't want you to.

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It’s a sad commentary that in the world’s largest democracy, writers’ protest has become a subject of jokes.

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In India, people fight with all their might to kill an idea.

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Their discomfort is with the new order where the others are also heard.

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That day I learnt that in the big fat world of Bollywood, the problem isn’t whether the pyramid should be inverted or not. The problem is there isn’t any pyramid.

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For the last 70 years, English media has loved to paint any rightist organization, especially RSS, as regressive, uncivilized, aggressive and fundamentalist.

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Or a party which believes in Hindu secularism and is led by ‘the-man-you-hate’ who says 10 times a day that his only mantra is ‘Justice for all. Appeasement for none.’

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The UPA passed a Bill in Parliament and ‘banned’ these names to be used for any government project.

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The lustre is gone from our intellectual discourse. Secularism has lost its ideological currency.

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Simply put, beneficiaries of Congress’s largesse.

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Somewhere in the race to survive in Bollywood, I started telling stories that I believed people wanted to hear, and not the ones I wanted to tell. The ones which ought to be told.

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Little did Vanbala know that Naxalism is just a vehicle to take her from one hell to another hell.

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In Bollywood, stars don't support small, meaningful cinema. They are more inclined to support a leave-your-brains-at-home kind of cinema, if only it can be called cinema.

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They are the Intellectual Mafia.

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I knew at that very moment that I would never be invited by Barkha on NDTV again and that is exactly what happened, but ‘Intellectual Mafia’ became legitimate jargon in social media.

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That day I saw the change with my own eyes. The MAMI organizers’ agenda wasn’t to promote these films anymore but to promote themselves. MAMI is just another club of the elites.

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The media has created a ‘group of somebodies’ and a ‘group of nobodies’. Those raising slogans against the State of India are painted as The Superiors and the ones singing ‘Vande Mataram’ as The Inferiors.

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Both the worlds are so polarized. So different and contradictory. Yet, they have some things in common. Complexity, chaos, and conflict. And there is no place for any other narrative.

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Sonia Gandhi led UPA has brought us to this. Where Indians are pitted against Indians.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vivek Agnihotri (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.