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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Attempts at criminal law reforms are part of the Sangh Parivar’s long-term and sustained agenda of bringing about a paradigm shift in the popular perspective on nationhood. It wants the criminal law system to be moulded on the lines of the Hindutva treatises of governance.
It is incumbent upon the state to act and remedy the pernicious influence of caste by eradicating its hierarchies and doing so requires looking at reservation as a component of political equality.
While all caste groups lost jobs in the first month of the lockdown, the job losses for the lowest-ranked castes are greater by factor of three; the loss of income and livelihoods has pushed India’s marginalised groups into further indebtedness.
The author discusses her commitment towards gender justice and equality as an anti-caste activist and researcher operating in upper caste, white and colonial spaces.
Dr Ambedkar had said that Dalits have two enemies: Capitalism and Brahminism; but today’s Dalit leaders have befriended capitalism.
It reveals that neoliberal capital is riding piggyback on the Hindu Rashtra forces in order to loot India’s human resources.
Seventy years after becoming a republic and abolishing discrimination based on caste, gender, race and so on, there is very little change on the ground.
The idea of equality is that like should be treated alike and different treatment may be accorded to those who are sharply dissimilar. Thus, right to equality permits reservation, and is a part of the basic structure of the constitution.
At a time when fascist goons are spreading hatred and intolerance in the name of religion, it is important to spread Swami Vivekananda’s message of equality, respect and dignity for all religions among the people.
Even as students at Princeton force a debate around diversifying faculty and student bodies, elite Indian institutions continue to be in a state of studied denial about Brahmanical supremacy.
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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