Gautam Sen says he doesn’t support Naxalism but he doesn’t seem to believe in the efficacy of ‘conventional politics’ either:

Despite these differences, my answer to my brother’s imprisonment is not the advocacy of violence. It is a waning and tenuous hope that perhaps the system does work, as Pai thinks it does. Perhaps my brother will be able to defend himself in court successfully against the manifest lies that the state has concocted against him to ensnare him in a judicial trap. The far more important and urgent question though is: will the poor and powerless see justice, not in some pie-in-the-sky trickle-down future, but now – soon enough for them to lead dignified and productive lives?

We have been a free country for six decades. When are we going to share that freedom with all of our citizens?