India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
“We have completed one journey of consolidating our freedom, the foundations of which were laid a hundred years ago by our people with their blood, sweat and tears… We have today to remember the lessons of unity, religious tolerance and fellow feeling taught by Mahatma Gandhi and other great sons of India and go forward in a united and determined manner.”
Full text of Nehru’s speech to the Constituent Assembly on February 2, 1948: “A glory has departed and the sun that warmed and brightened our lives has set and we shiver in the cold and dark.”
In 1937, Jawaharlal Nehru was elected president of the Congress for the third time. Cognisant and cautious of the dangers of his own pride and position, he wrote this essay, in which he stressed the importance of questioning the motives of leaders, and checking the power they hold.
Huxley had stated in a passage in his book that that Tolstoyans and Gandhi-ites advocate a “return to Nature” and want people to abandon science altogether and live like primitives or, at least in the medieval style.
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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