India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The Song of India is its Constitution. Its melody is Democracy. The lyrics of the song are about Justice, Liberty, and Equality for all its diverse people. Fraternity among all the people of this proud nation provides the harmony.
‘I think it is doubly important that we continue to pay tribute to the INA, and also to hold high the banners that Azad Hind Fauj had raised, the banners of national dignity, unity, communal brotherhood, and also secularism,’ says the eminent historian.
The observation of the Supreme Court that ‘socialism’ in the context of the Indian Constitution is nothing more than the “State’s commitment to be a welfare state” is entirely untenable. The concept has rich contents to be derived from operative provisions in Parts III and IV of the Constitution.
Per the Report, India witnessed extreme weather events on 255 of the 274 days of the first nine months of 2024, and these killed more than 3,200 people.
The Indian economy is in deep crisis. Therefore, for the economy to have a sustained recovery, it is important that the government greatly increases its expenditure. In this article, we analyse the Modi Government’s budget outlays of the past 10 years.
Within the limited budget outlay, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced a hike in capital expenditure (or capex) — of 17.1 percent. This is the fourth year in succession that she has hiked capex. An increase in capex, without increasing budget outlay, is not going to lead to economic growth and employment generation. We discuss this in this article.
The corporate hijack of agriculture, achieved by predatory commercialisation of the countryside, is India’s actual agrarian crisis.
The long-term structural weakness in India’s balance of payments cannot be the sole determinant of the rupee’s movements. This view is strengthened by the evidence that during the recent fall in the value of the rupee vis-à-vis the dollar, it has actually appreciated relative to the currencies of other trading partners.
Recently, a well-known journalist, Dileep Mandal, who has been appointed to the post of Consultant by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, has advanced the preposterous claim that Fatima Shaikh, whose name is inextricably linked with that of the iconic Savitri Bai Phule, is a figment of his own imagination.
“In DU’s Daulat Ram College, Students Witness Saffronisation of a ‘Safe Place’”; and: “A Controversial ‘Book Launch’ and Delhi University’s Descent Into Party Propaganda”: It is certainly not the job of our our academic leaders to open the gates of universities to those in power and join them in trampling the garden of knowledge.
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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