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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Ground reports: farmers at Delhi borders mark year of protest, vow to keep the fight on; Changes one year of agitation have brought in farmers’ life; How Punjabi songs of resistance kept the spirit alive; From students, dalits to the Punjabi diaspora, volunteers helped the movement to victory.
In replying to your speech we have got an opportunity to clarify some of the common misconceptions regarding human rights work. The work human rights organisations such as PUCL do is under the Constitution and aims to achieve Constitutional goals.
The Centre’s recent attempts to provide clarification over the notification fail to allay concerns raised by civil society, tech companies and internet users.
It may have been inconceivable before Corona to think of an examination-free education system, but now we are coerced into exploring its possibility. Just imagine how much unnecessary stress it will save the children, parents and teachers, while freeing up time to pursue hobbies.
The Pothumallee case led to reservations in Tamil Nadu’s anganwadis. Ten years later, caste hurdles to recruitment have given way to other challenges.
A 56-year-old Kerala nun is isolated in her convent, barred from eating or speaking with her fellow nuns. While the Church has made several charges against her, the real reason, she says, is because she stood up for a sister nun allegedly raped 13 times over two years by a powerful bishop.
Nearly 50,000 teachers joined madrasas under the modernisation scheme. For almost five years, they have not received the Union government’s share of the salary.
The conference ended with a disheartening “compromise” deal on the climate. In this interview, leading intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin offer their assessments of what transpired at COP26 and share their views about ways to go forward with the fight against the climate crisis.
The deeper implications of this apparent “technology coup” are troubling for dealing with the looming climate crisis and urgent need to restore the environment.
President Biden and his colleagues must step back from the brink of a U.S.-Russia war, and then from the larger Cold War with China and Russia that they have so blindly and foolishly stumbled into.
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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