Modi's dimaagi naxals charge is Orwellian but Gen Z will fight back: Mani Shankar Aiyar, former Cabinet Minister, to Karan Thapar for The Wire.

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In this interview, Mani Shankar Aiyar compares Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion that dimaagi naxals are a threat to India and must be identified and isolated both to George Orwell’s thought crime and thought police from 1984 as well as to the way Hitler identified and isolated jews in the 1930s and ’40s in Germany. Mr. Aiyar says the claim that dimaagi naxals need to be identified and isolated – which was made by PM Modi in his Independence Day speech – is ominous. Mr. Aiyar believes that vigilantes will be given this task just as they have been used to identify alleged love jihadis and alleged cow smugglers.

However, Mr. Aiyar is c ...