India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Unproductive finance has been creeping into the Indian economy. The consequences are the aborting of the circuits of money and production and the employment of labor. The way forward is for the working class to lay claim to the mode and relations of production through socialist, secular, democratic means.
The growth at any cost strategy has been at the expense of the workers and the environment. The situation has been aggravated by the recent policy mistakes – demonetization, flawed GST and sudden lockdown. The challenge before India is not just economic but societal. Unless that challenge is met, portents are not bright for India at 75.
Actually Yes! There are amyriad studies from around the world showing that organic farms can produce about as much, and in some settings much more, than conventional farms.
The high level of killing often reported in history or later archaeology is contradicted in the earliest archaeological findings around the globe. The most ancient bones and artifacts are consistent with the title of Margaret Mead’s 1940 article: “Warfare Is Only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity.”
Lost Illusions by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is a monumental novel, a turning point in modern literature. Xavier Giannoli has done a remarkable job of interpreting and adapting it into a film of the same title.
I had great faith in the judiciary. Alas, I have lost it. No sensible Indian expected the topmost court to make extremely disparaging remarks against Teesta Setalvad and RB Sreekumar and accuse them of a pre-planned conspiracy to harm PM Modi! Also: “When Accused Become Innocent and Innocent are Made Accused.”
Book review. Mukunda Rao makes it clear in his book that contrary to what is widely believed, India’s spiritual history is not all about Brahmanical beliefs, Sanskrit literature, the Upanishads, and the Gita, or even the caste system.
Replying to a question in the Parliament, the government stated that between 2014 and 2022, the Central government recruited 7.22 lakh persons, while 9.79 lakh posts were still vacant.
Blinded and mesmerized by the Rs 7525 crore port project, all governments whether the UDF led one in 2015 when the contract was signed, or the subsequent two terms of the LDF, have taken special attention to provide land and resources to the Adani Vizhinjam Port Private Limited.
The indigenous people of 36 local villages from Deucha-Pachami area have been protesting for the last eight months demanding the cancellation of the coal mine project.
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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