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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
On 1 February 2025, Zakiaben was called to her eternal reward. In her death, the people of India have lost a great soul. She suffered much since that fateful day, when her dear husband Ehsan Jafri was brutally murdered. Since then, she fought relentlessly for justice not merely for herself but all women and other victims of an unjust and violent system.
Letter expressing concern over the systematic targeting killing of the tribals and Christians, the destruction of Churches and Christian institutions, and appealing to the Bishops to act with decisiveness and with cohesiveness, instead of hobnobbing with the rulers.
The World Press Freedom Index 2022 had ranked India 150 out of 180 countries in the world. Given the state of Freedom of Speech and Expression in the country today, it is doubtful whether India has any chances of improving on its pathetic 150 ranking of the previous year.
Dear Stan, It is your birthday today here on earth! You would have completed eighty-six years, if you were around. Well, that was not to be; on 5 July 2021 you were murdered by a brutal and fascist regime. Here on earth dear Stan you are missed very much …
In a hard-hitting exposé on his weekly segment ‘Truth vs Hype’, released on 19 November, Srinivasan Jain, the popular TV anchor with NDTV, talks about the so-called ‘Forced Conversions’ with incontrovertible facts and the falsehoods and myths that are built around the issue!
India today, is enveloped in darkness! As the nation embroils itself from one issue to another, the burden is felt by the ordinary citizen, as never before and in more ways than one. In these dark times, the people of India cry out in one voice, from the depths of their being “Let there be Light”!
Seventy-five years ago, our committed freedom fighters with their many sacrifices, gave India her freedom! Bilkis Bano, today, with her relentless fight for justice and the suffering which she is still going through, has come to symbolise India’s latest struggle for freedom.
As another ‘Ninth August’ slips into history, it is important that we bask in the significance of the day and what it holds in store for all and particularly for the journey ahead! This reflection therefore is about the past, present and future – three tenses all encapsulated into one reality!
A year ago, on 5 July 2021, when Father Stan Swamy left us, the world mourned the death of a great human being who epitomised compassion, courage, collaboration and commitment!
The recent decision by the UN General Assembly to declare 18 June as the International Day for Countering Hate Speech is significant. It comes at a special moment of world history, when hate speech in several parts of the globe, including India, seem to have become the order of the day.
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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