urban Naxal
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urban Naxal
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Coined by Indian filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri in Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam (2018), a book about his film Buddha in a Traffic Jam (2014). Referring to the group's alleged ties with communist militants for left-wing beliefs, support for socialism, and hostility to Hindu nationalism.
noun urban Naxals
- A person, especially an intellectual, academic, journalist, or other urban resident, who supports the ideology, objectives, or activities of the Naxalite (Maoist) movement, particularly without being an armed member of such a movement.
- A person associated with radical left-wing political thought or activism in an urban setting and outside the armed rural Naxalite (Maoist) movement.
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