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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Recent incidents in Indore and Ajmer explain why it is urgent for the global community to tell the Indian government that its actions are being watched and it will be held accountable according to international norms which all civilised countries have for their attitude towards minorities.
Changing the names of streets, towns and districts is the easiest way of asserting power. It does not bring prosperity.
The University Grants Commission’s draft history syllabus has dropped books by well-known historians, such as DD Kosambi, R S Sharma, DN Jha and Irfan Habib. The objective seems to be to glorify mythology rather than history, as also deny any Dravidian links to Harappan culture.
The event seeks to bring a long-delayed global awareness about the operations of an exclusionary and discriminatory ideology.
Though unlike one another in tone and texture, ‘Adaab’, ‘Toba Tek Singh’ and ‘Garm Hawa’ have the same point of departure: that religion as the primary marker of identity is as irrational as it is abhorrent.
Chronicle of a woman’s life after her husband was arrested by Delhi Police.
Coercive measures to control population will have several adverse effects. Amartya Sen, the renowned economist, recently talked about population well-being and stated that cooperation can provide something that coercion can’t provide.
Excerpts from Harsh Mander’s JB D’Souza Memorial Lecture to mark the birth centenary of the former civil servant.
The RSS chief said in a recent speech that dialogue is the way out of Hindu-Muslim discord. Can there be any such dialogue considering his own organisation fans this disharmony?
Democracy is the only form of governance that cultivates the arts and crafts of governance at a respectful distance and always aims at the achievement of what the philosopher John Rawls called “overlapping consensus” for “reasonable pluralism”.
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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