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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The flags of U.S. client states, anti-communist regimes, and pre-revolution puppet states dotted the sea of MAGA hats and Confederate flags at the Capitol Hill mobs. Making sense of why requires understanding the convergence between imperialism abroad and fascism at home.
Next year, the operator of the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant would start releasing radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. Several nations are up in arms against it, but Indian authorities are silent. A discussion about what is at stake for people and the environment.
Vietnam has not bowed to American pressure to join the Quad. The result is that China and Vietnam’s economic relations have steadily prospered, and China is today Vietnam’s largest trading partner and the latter is China’s sixth biggest trading partner.
Perhaps, the rulers and administrators manning the State machinery, haven’t heard this verse of Baba Farid Shakarganj (1173-1265 AD): “Farid, the earth questioned the sky, Where are the mighty captains gone? / In their grave they rot, was the reply / And rebuked for tasks not done.”
At a recent webinar organized by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, scholars and artists laid bare the seldom-discussed problem of caste in the performing arts of South India.
Remembering Deshbandhu: a leader with enormous mass appeal, a pragmatic and a tactful politician, a legendary legal practitioner, a constitutionalist, a poet, an editor and an ambassador for Hindu-Muslim unity.
Remembering Lumumba on the 60th anniversary of his assassination by Congolese leaders complicit with Belgian police and soldiers. Lumumba was only 35 years old and could have played a very important role in his country, in Africa and at a global level.
Made 95 years ago, Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece hasn’t lost any of its power.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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