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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Is Facebook trying to move away from its sullied past and present to migrate to an alternate universe, the metaverse Facebook will create so we forget about the hate-filled Facebook pages that fuel its ad-driven business empire?
If education in India is to serve its true purpose, then it must have a content oriented towards serving India’s needs. But globalised capital would like the educated middle class, from which it employs its personnel, to be as alike everywhere as possible. Modi’s NEP is seeking to serve its needs.
It is not in India’s interests to needlessly annoy a host of countries in the region and from outside the region such as Turkey, Iran, Qatar, China, Pakistan — and even Russia. The bottomline is that the government must explain how India benefits out of this joyride in Quad-2.
Bitter truth is, those who run Indian cricket have themselves injected this idea into fans that cricket is a lot more than a game and the other team is not our opponent but enemy. Kohli, too, has played a big part in forming this idea.
The Centre’s flagship rural employment scheme has run out of funds halfway through the financial year. Also: Around 5 Crore MGNREGA Workers and Their Families Will have to Spend Their Diwali Without Food & Sweets Due to Pending Wages.
Radicalism, the Prime Minister should know, is born in the perceived absence of a conscience in those who control the levers of the Indian State. Radicalisation is suicidal for the weak—and Muslims certainly know that. It is also suicidal for India.
How might purportedly virtuous western values have arisen? Enlightened Europeans set sail for distant shores, claimed the inhabited lands as their own, enslaved the locals, raped the women, chopped off body parts, robbed the resources, destroyed the cultures, among a host of atrocities.
The BJP claims that demonetisation showed the resolve of the government to fight black money and corruption, and the travails faced by the people due to it were a small sacrifice for the gains of demonetisation. An examination of these claims made by the BJP, and the real impact of demonetisation on the economy.
The first prime minister’s legacy isn’t easy to wipe out, but the BJP-RSS will keep trying to erase it unless there is pushback.
While attempts by the ruling party to control the media and the messaging are not new in India, what we see now is the use of new technology to ‘curate’ and exercise ‘centralised control’ to spread disinformation in order to harass and intimidate critics.
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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