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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The concept of ‘cumulative radicalisation’ given by the British historian, Sir Ian Kershaw, to explain the horrors of Nazi Germany is a useful mechanism to explain India’s plunge towards the kind of violence and persecution that has been the hallmark of the Narendra Modi regime.
The majority in India must talk about its insensitivity to the pain of those it considers ‘others’.
She is a single journalist working mostly alone, without institutional support, and largely for international publications. This makes her particularly vulnerable, but also more determined.
2 articles: Profits Before People: The Facebook Papers Expose Tech Giant Greed; and: Internal Documents Show Facebook Wavered in Checking Misinformation, Hate Speech in India: Report.
Social media propaganda, complete with hashtags, trends and concocted videos, seems to have one single aim: to boycott Muslim-owned and run businesses.
The intensely researched work, which came before the current politicised antagonism towards the Mughals, ‘Mughal Samrat Akbar Aur Sanskrit’ is a unique volume.
It underlines their vicious Islamophobia, investment in controlling female sexuality, and a preference for religious segregation.
Recent estimates made by the Economist suggest that the global toll of the pandemic is 16 million, more than three times the official toll of COVID-19 deaths. Estimates of India’s pandemic excess deaths range from between 3 to 5 million deaths, a quarter of total global pandemic deaths.
In driving out ‘illegal encroachers’ from farms for an agriculture project that does not interest native Assamese, the BJP govt is dispossessing productive Bengali Muslim farmers, many of whom say they bought land from locals and have been paying land taxes, some for up to 70 years.
Said Gandhi on that day in 1947, “Indeed, today is my birthday…. This is for me a day of mourning. I am still lying around alive. I am surprised at this, even ashamed that I am the same person who once had crores of people hanging on to every word of his. But today no one heeds me at all…”
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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