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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
This Teachers’ Day, we must remember the teachers who have been suspended, penalised, arrested, jailed, or forced to quit for being independent and teaching students this independence.
Udayanidhi Stalin’s statement that he’s prepared to furnish the writings of Periyar and Ambedkar to defend his comments on sanatana dharma indicates the larger context of radical, anti-caste critiques of religion in India, then and now. Also: “The BJP May Defend ‘Sanatan Dharma’, But Can’t Define What it Means”.
The 2023–24 budget for agriculture is simply devastating for farmers — it is as if the Modi Government is taking revenge on farmers for their historic movement that forced the roll-back of the three farm laws. The seventh article in our analysis of Union Budget 2023.
Indian authorities are downplaying inconvenient macroeconomic facts so that they can celebrate high GDP figures ahead of hosting the G20 summit. But in covering up the growing struggles faced by the vast majority of Indians, they are playing a cynical and dangerous game.
It is easy to feel bleak in the confines of one’s living room, where social media-fuelled anxiety can lead to handwringing and despair. But as anyone who has taken part in a people’s movement in some shape or form can testify, the view is very different from the street.
Gandhi said, “The BJP’s vision believes that power should be centralised, wealth should be concentrated and the conversation between … people of India should be suppressed. And so, this is the fight between two visions. I like to term it the fight between Mahatma Gandhi’s vision and Nathuram Godse’s vision.”
The noted environmentalist offers candid takes on India’s agrarian crisis, sustainable agriculture, and gender equality in farming.
A report on a virtual meeting organised by the civil rights organisation Kezekevi Thehou Ba says that the “bid to push oil palm cultivation in the North-East” has rung “alarm bells” in the ecologically fragile and biodiversity rich region.
Villagers are protesting against the Ken-Betwa River Link Project, that is likely to lead to cutting down of 3 to 4 million trees and displacement of people of 21 villages. The project will be highly disastrous for the Bundelkhand region already suffering from several acute problems.
The narrative around the G20 events is set largely around infrastructural improvements and state-of-the-art facilities. But the costs of such glitter and glitz are largely borne by the most underprivileged and working population of the city living in informal settlements or slums.
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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