India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
At a recent webinar organized by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, scholars and artists laid bare the seldom-discussed problem of caste in the performing arts of South India.
Remembering Deshbandhu: a leader with enormous mass appeal, a pragmatic and a tactful politician, a legendary legal practitioner, a constitutionalist, a poet, an editor and an ambassador for Hindu-Muslim unity.
Remembering Lumumba on the 60th anniversary of his assassination by Congolese leaders complicit with Belgian police and soldiers. Lumumba was only 35 years old and could have played a very important role in his country, in Africa and at a global level.
Made 95 years ago, Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece hasn’t lost any of its power.
An official report prepared under the Vajpayee government in 2002 gives us a glimpse of some of the major lobbies pressing for restructuring of India’s agriculture and food economy.
Greater public employment ensures better deliver of public services to citizens.
While Hindu Shudras and Dalits enjoy the protection of reservation, a Muslim Ajlaf or Arzal, who experiences the same discrimination – if not worse due to their Muslim identity – is not given similar protection by the law.
The legality of the state’s move to recover damages from people accused of having participated in the protests is dubious.
Tracing the genesis and trajectory of women’s educational reform in Aligarh through the profile of a woman reformer – Waheed Jahan (1886-1939), the co-founder of Aligarh’s first girls’ school.
Anyone who believes locking President Donald Trump out of his social media accounts will serve as the first step on the path to healing the political divide in the United States is likely to be in for a bitter disappointment.
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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