Bhima Koregaon Activists: The Personal Cost of Fighting for Democracy in India
The HinduPublished : Jul 24, 2024 11:00 IST - 9 MINS READ The French philosopher Michel Foucault, rather intriguingly, was enchanted by the Iranian revolution. The book under review could be read as taking a deep dive into the recesses of what propels people towards intimate commitments, in utter disregard for their own wellbeing, in search of an explanation of the “man in revolt”, it may not be so inexplicable. The subtitle of the book is “search for democracy in India” that could easily have been rewritten as the search for justice and meaning. To come to think of it, many of the names that hit the front pages of the dailies after the “sensational” revelations of the “plot to assassinate the Prime Minister”, including Rona Wilson, Stan Swamy, Sudhir Dhawale, Surendra Gadling, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Hany Babu, were barely known beyond the circles that they were active in. Alpa Shah notes that “the Maharashtra police seemed intent to punish the BK incarcerated as convicted criminals, not as political prisoners whose trails had not even began”.
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