The movement faces the dual challenge of surviving sustained state pressure while addressing questions about its strategic relevance in a rapidly changing India. Whether it can adapt to new social realities or whether it will continue to decline remains uncertain.

Adivasis (literally, “original inhabitants”, equivalent to “indigenous peoples”) have been and are being sacrificed in the union government’s uranium mining and processing projects in what is now the State of Jharkhand, earlier the State of Bihar, where the public enterprise, Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL) began underground uranium mining and processing plant, twenty-four km west of Jaduguda.

Revolutions are very costly in terms of human lives and suffering, and so “we” are shocked that “you” radicals even consider them as options. And so “we” have to express “our” rejection and condemnation.

Billionaires are “smart” enough. Their wealth now, in this pandemic, tops trillions of dollars.