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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Professor Jagmohan Singh is one of the prominent conscience-keepers of our times. He is also Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s nephew. Naren Singh Rao spoke to him about Bhagat Singh’s ideological legacy and the current concerns regarding his appropriation by the Hindu Right.
A Financial Times report claimed “offshore companies linked to the Adanis” invested at least $2.6 billion in the group between 2017 and 2022. Also: The way Rahul Gandhi has been hounded over the last month shows that the BJP is unnerved. However, Gandhi has refused to buckle under pressure.
With the general elections a year away, farmers’ unions say they will build more pressure on the government to resolve their issues and ‘will take their movement to its logical end’.
Mandatory digital attendance has led to 10% decline in work. Also: Press Release by the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha.
With few jobs, India’s youth are turning to the gig economy, scam call centres and AI microwork – for low wages and few protections.
What has just taken place in Moscow is nothing less than a new Yalta. This is the first time in arguably five centuries that no political leader from the west is setting the global agenda. It’s Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin that are now running the multilateral, multipolar show.
The real needs of humanity haven’t changed since Ike’s time. Whether in 1953 or 2023, more guns won’t serve the cause of peace. They won’t provide succour. They’ll only stunt and starve us, to echo the words of H.G. Wells, while imperiling the lives and futures of our children.
The world is desperate for peace. Many see war as an opportunity for profit, and not as the abdication of the human spirit it truly is. In the meantime, millions of lives continue to be lost and families irreparably destroyed, while the mercenaries of war increase their profits.
It cannot be understood by an ideology that thinks of every “other” as an enemy within.
Every lost soul matters. It’s one thing to reduce life to an abstract statistic, but far more problematic is quietly aligning with the world of the policymakers and accepting murder – war, especially the unprovoked kind – as a necessary facet of national, let alone human, security.
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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