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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
China is the world leader in high-speed rail development, sporting more than 35,000 km of high-speed rail, or 68 percent of the world’s total. US think-tanks are criticising China’s rail policies saying that they damage “innovation” by privileging domestic market development and state-owned enterprises over private corporations.
In South Africa, unemployment is at 42.3%. The rate for young people is 74.7%. Millions of young people find that the world does not extend them any kind of welcome. They are, in the words of poet Lesego Rampolokeng, “frustrated hoisted then dropped against the rocks of promise”.
Creation of all forms of energy contributes to the destruction of nature and human life. It is possible to increase the global quality of life at the same time we reduce the use of fossil fuels and other sources of energy. Therefore, a “deep” GND would focus on energy reduction / conservation.
In several states, prison manuals still dictate that labour within the prison should be assigned on the basis of caste.
“All their speeches were fill of communal poison,” he wrote after banning the Sangh in 1948. “As a final result of the poison, the country had to suffer the sacrifice of the invaluable life of Gandhiji.”
For the Hindutva movement, Birsa Munda is an icon only because he and his followers attacked missionaries and the church. But this is a deliberate misreading of history and a willful deception.
The renowned filmmaker died on June 10 at the age of 77.
Both were written in the middle decades of the 20th century. Both acknowledge the technological achievements of humankind, and express an apprehension about its potential to be used in catastrophic and alienating ways.
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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