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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
BJP’s subversion of the electoral process and Modi’s communal rhetoric undermine credentials of democracy in India. It is time to use the only democratic weapon people have, the vote, responsibly.
The constitution that the people of India gave to themselves was a product of mass struggle, political compromises, idealism and commitment to every citizen.
The Indian constitution institutionalises the ideals of democracy. Left to itself, democracy can go completely haywire. It can be reduced to elections – as it has been in today’s India. Without a constitution, we will never know that there is more to democracy than just elections.
Are the people who stood around, watched, clapped, and cheered when Ramesh Bidhuri dishonoured a fellow citizen of this country and his community, not complicit in brutal hate speech that tars an entire community?
A divine symbol will not make parliament more democratic. Only a government which is aware that the opposition has also been elected and deserves respect can accomplish that.
The informal working class makes the city, but the city has no place for its own makers.
Book Review: Ramin Jahanbegloo and Pooja Sharma, ‘Living in Truth: The Gandhian Paradigm’: The time has come to see Gandhi as primarily a political thinker, and to engage with him the way we would critically engage with a political philosopher.
Public intellectuals should be respected because they speak out against injustice wherever it occurs.
Every book that is written on the past by an aspiring historian is not history. History is a specialised discipline that wends a careful and delicate way through the maze of what happened.
The senseless and relentless march of violence has made us forget who we are and how we have lived, worked and prayed together for centuries.
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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