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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The great Bengali poet, writer, thinker and artist, Rabindranath Tagore published a collection of short but deep observations on life world 100 years ago. The description of life and death in one of the stories in this collection relates closely to our everyday life in the post-COVID world.
“True deaths are likely to be in the several millions, not hundreds of thousands, making this arguably India’s worst human tragedy,” said its authors, one of whom is a former chief economic adviser to the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
To fight hunger and distress due to the pandemic, India must universalise foodgrain distribution, expand the food basket in its rations scheme and provide cash transfers. Plus article: Addressing the Nutrition Crisis in India in the Time of Covid 19 Pandemic.
The first decades of the 21st century have been a gilded age for the world’s super-rich. While the mass of humanity has struggled through successive economic crises, accelerating environmental breakdown and now a devastating global pandemic, billionaire wealth has risen to dizzying heights.
Although Richard Lewontin is no longer with us, in another sense he shall continue to live on. Through his works, Lewontin will continue to inspire and educate a new generation of scientists and of revolutionaries.
The Supreme Court has “strongly disapproved” of the government’s “non-action” in providing rations to migrant workers and termed it “unpardonable”. However, in terms of tangible relief to workers, beyond chastising the government, the order is slightly disappointing.
The sharp drop in GDP is the largest in the country’s history – and even that may well underestimate the economic damage experienced by the poorest households.
During the peak of the second surge of the deadly killer virus in summer this year, when patients in several parts of India were literally gasping for breath, the situation in West Bengal was much better managed.
A day after a judge of the Supreme Federal Court ordered a criminal investigation against Jair Bolsonaro in the Covaxin scandal, hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets in 350 cities and towns to protest against the government and demand that the president be impeached.
Japan is currently wrestling with a coronavirus upsurge and less than 3 percent of the population is vaccinated. According to polls, as much as 80 percent of the country does not want to host the games, for fear of it exacerbating this omnipresent public health crisis.
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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