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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
How can one social group assume that it has rights that another section does not because of the morally arbitrary factor of birth? They can only do so if they are confident that the political elite is not concerned about morality of our constitution, which is the morality of democracy and justice.
When self-appointed custodians of Hindus call for ethnic cleansing in the name of dharma, they conveniently ignore the basic precepts of the religion. The philosophy of Hinduism is constituted by a deep commitment to satya and ahimsa. Many stories in our epics illustrate this commitment.
Many of today’s aspiring political scientists use the course as a tool to crack the civil services code, thereby losing the loftier goals at the heart of the discipline.
Today’s climate of communal rhetoric that pervades India has led to a partition of the hearts and minds of citizens. There is an alternative politics waiting to be rediscovered; a politics that emphasises that we have obligations of solidarity to our fellow citizens. Let us look for it. Let us adopt it.
Violence stamps the body politic with its cloven hoof; it reduces isolated acts of resistance to spectacle and diminishes the political public to an audience.
The demand for reservations is conducted in a moral and political vacuum – there is absolutely no debate, no discussion and no political consensus on the need for equalising life chances.
The act of participating in a protest movement that seeks to re-establish the precept of natural justice transforms a citizen from a periodic voter into a political agent conscious of her rights.
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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