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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
India ranked among the ten largest food producers globally. Yet, India’s rank in the Global Hunger Index has been falling over the years. Why is India unable to distribute food to its own people?
Science is slow, tedious and evidence riddled, while mythology provides quick and immediate results.
Five states saw over 460,000 excess deaths in the first five months of 2021, but the official Covid-19 toll in these states in this period accounts for only 6% of these excess deaths. How many of the remaining 94% are ‘missed’ Covid-19 deaths will not be easy to disentangle.
Dr Ambedkar’s book, Annihilation of Caste, continues to trigger the orthodox minds even today and that’s why it is, unfortunately, rarely discoursed on in the social sphere and in academic spaces.
The Act, which aimed to decentralise power and empower indegneous communities, has completed 25 years in existence, but faces glaring incompetence, gross violations and structural loopholes.
The last seven years show that democracy, rules and regulations can be the perfect cover to suspend democratic values and civil rights. Plus review of a new book on the Emergency by Christophe Jaffrelot and Pratinav Anil.
Speaking at a press conference following his meeting with Russian president Putin, US President Biden stated that the US has never interfered in elections in other countries, unlike Russia. Sadly, Biden was lying.
June 24, 2021 will be the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo in which Simón Bolívar’s patriotic forces won a resounding victory that effectively ended 300 years of colonial dominance by Spain; also: Manifesto issued by the Bicentennial Congress of the Peoples of the World held in Venezuela to mark the occasion.
Young journalists are staking their lives to report from the underground, hounded doctors are setting up secret clinics, urban guerillas have emerged in cities, and youngsters are moving into border areas to join armed guerilla armies. Yet, why are India and the world so silent on the coup in Myanmar?
Intra-elite struggles in the corridors of powers go on, as IMF debt piles up, the economy tanks, and people struggle against privatization.
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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