India’s battle against Naxalism is fast moving beyond the gun to the more shadowy battlefield of ideas. The tendency of some educated people who describe themselves as intellectuals to provide ideological justification for violence, disorder and anti-establishment activities is often viewed as a manifestation of “urban Naxalism”. In his Independence Day address from the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi broadened this idea by introducing the term dimaagi Naxalism or “Nax