FACT India will organise an exhibition on Naxalism titled "Naxalism: A Threat to Unified India" The exhibition on Naxalites would showcase the vandalism and seperatism that threatens the unity and sovergnity of India. The same exhibition was screened at Oslo on the sidelines of "The Conference on Peace and Reconciliation in South Asia - Challenges and Opportunities." The Exhibition will stay at the India Habitat centre from 8th - 14th July 2008. The Exhibition travels through the destruction and bloodshed that the 'peasant upraising' left on the Indian Socio-political map. The scars of sufferings and human rights violations left behind by the very same ideologues on the very same peasants that they are fighting for.

India, the largest democracy in the world, is plagued with violence from Naxalites, variously referred to as extremist Maoists revolutionaries. One third of the districts in India are currently under their influence and many observers consider Naxalite violence as the greatest threat to the Indian nation. Why such an extremist movement thrives in an open and democratic society is a puzzle to many.

There seems to be no question that everyone in the country wants democracy. The issue is how to achieve stable democracy in the face of unremitting political violence and religious extremism, problems that have continuously disturbed the country since its creation as a nation-state.A similar violent conflict that exists in Nepal has resulted in terrible brutalities but ultimately wisdom dawned and atlease they have gone to ballet rather than bullet for time beeing.

The Exhibition has travelled to Oslo and was screened on the sidelines of "International Conference on Peace and Reconciliation in South Asia", Oslo in April 2008. FACT - India is committed to highlighting the magnificence of India and the threats to its sovereignty.

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