In 2018, Vivek wrote Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam, in which he described individuals in academia and media who were allegedly colluding with Naxalites in a bid to overthrow the Indian government and were thus "invisible enemies of India" as "Urban Naxals".

Critics said the term is "vague rhetoric" that is designed to discredit intellectuals who are critical of the establishment and political right and to stifle dissent.
Reviews in the Organiser and The New Indian Express had praised the work.
The Union Minister of Human Resource Development Smriti Irani endorsed Vivek's views of Jadavpur University and Jawaharlal Nehru University for having refused to screen Buddha in a Traffic Jam.
In 2018, Vivek wrote Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam, in which he described individuals in academia and media who were allegedly colluding with Naxalites in a bid to overthrow the Indian government and were thus "invisible enemies of India" as "Urban Naxals". 
Critics said the term is "vague rhetoric" that is designed to discredit intellectuals who are critical of the establishment and political right and to stifle dissent. Reviews in the Organiser and The New Indian Express had praised the work. The Union Minister of Human Resource Development Smriti Irani endorsed Vivek's views of Jadavpur University and Jawaharlal Nehru University for having refused to screen Buddha in a Traffic Jam.
Vivek Agnihotri