Yes, those people you mention are very respectworthy.
Kanhaiya is now a politician in the Communist Party of India ( Marxist ).
Umar as far as I know is part of the anti-CAA agitation in Delhi earlier this year.
@Naofumi, any update on this ?
Chandrashekhar Azad's
Wikipedia page has this :
And I like his takhallus : Raavan.
The Wikipedia page for his
Bhim Army has this ( and I like the dark blue color of this movement ) :
Please read
this interesting article.
Rana Ayyub is still a good journalist.
As for the Left overall in India, they are disunited. A few years ago I had visited the offices of CPI( M ) and CPI( ML ) and also the Center-Left Aam Aadmi Party with a proposal to create a common platform for all progressive groups. I had a few discussions with the State Secretary of CPI( M ) for my state. My idea was to
eventually try to convince them to adopt the Jamahiriya theory ( formerly of Libya ). Nothing concrete came out of those meetings.
One thing though. Leftism remains existing in India despite much pressure from right-wing movements. Even in Kashmir, there is M.Y.Tarigami of the CPI(M) and in Srinagar ( Kashmir ) the historic Lal Chowk exists as is. It was named so by left-wing activists inspired by the Russian Revolution as they fought the then Maharaja Hari Singh.