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Instead of a sombre memorial for those who lost their lives in the gruesome violence, historians and activists argue that the government has turned the memorial into a flashy site, and criticise it as an “insult” to the martyrs and a bid at erasing history and heritage. Also: Jallianwala Bagh Revamp: Martyrs’ Descendants Say They’ll Boycott Functions in Protest.
The argument advanced for the sale of public-sector enterprises, namely that it is a way of mobilising resources for government spending, is fundamentally wrong. The public sector, representing social ownership, is meant to serve society in diverse ways, not just by making profits.
Global corporations are colonising India’s retail space through e-commerce and destroying small-scale physical retail and millions of livelihoods.
The US has conveyed that India is not a priority, but the BJP govt is keeping up the ‘happy marriage’ pretence.
Paradoxes abound. However, the most disturbing of all these for me is that 2021 marks the 150th year of the enactment of the first Criminal Tribes Act in 1871. Seven decades after Independence, those who remain the hapless victims of the CTA still cannot see a ray of hope.
Caste practices and other kinds of social exclusion reduce communities’ access to maternal and child health, leading to more cases of stunting, says a new study.
Nowhere in the world did a pre-modern empire combine as many people and territories under a unified administrative apparatus as the Mughals did.
A new report from the Costs of War Project makes staggering estimates for the human and financial costs of the global forever wars. Also: Since 9/11, US Has Spent $21 Trillion on Militarism at Home and Abroad.
It is not just that the territories of the British empire were seized and ruled with great violence; it is important to understand that the rulers of the empire will one day be perceived to rank with the dictators of the 20th century as the authors of crimes against humanity on an infamous scale.
Between 2015 and 2019, Iceland embarked on two massive trials to test the idea of a shorter workweek. The result was an astounding success for its workers – and a model that deserves to be replicated elsewhere.
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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