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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
I see liberating education as the cultivation of awakened intelligence—not instrumental reasoning. This means the possibility of inner flowering—the integral development of reason and intuition, brain and heart, science and aesthetics, body and soul, and thinking and feeling.
While religion had a part to play in the rebellion, the movement in fact registered the resistance of the rural poor to acts of oppression and exploitation perpetrated by feudal landlords and the British colonial state.
Delivering the Sixth Justice M.C. Chagle Memorial Lecture, organized by the Department of Law, Mumbai University, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud elaborated on the necessity of speaking truth to power as integral to the functioning of a democracy to “obviate a predisposition to tyranny”.
In their new book, authors Rupa Marya and Raj Patel explore how capitalism and colonialism have caused sickness and how Indigenous knowledge can offer healing.
Book Review: ‘Capitalism on a Ventilator’ compares the impact of COVID-19 in China and the U.S., in the words of “social justice activists discussing a global choice: cooperation vs. competition.
An investigation into the shocking scale of big food corporations’ market dominance and political power, and its consequences for the people.
Rogelio Mayta, who is pressing for a more democratic process of regional integration, explains why Bolivia is raising its voice against Luis Almagro, head of the OAS, both for his role in the 2019 coup, and his wider political actions, on behalf of the USA, in the domestic affairs of member states.
Articles on the ongoing tragedy in Haiti do not highlight the nefarious role that groups affiliated with the United Nations and the US have played in Haiti in the past, and the positive role that other countries in the Global South, particularly Venezuela, have had on Haiti’s development.
Amid the debacle of Bolsanaro’s rule, Guilherme Boulos – coordinator of Brazil’s homeless workers, the MTST – speaks about the political crisis, barrio psychoanalysis, the balance sheet of the Lula-Dilma govts, the politics of impeachment and the militancy of practical experience.
Interview with Ivan Acosta, Nicaragua’s minister of housing and public credit, with responsibility for key aspects of government planning. In July, he presented the country’s new “National Plan for the Fight against Poverty and for Human Development.”
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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