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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The reason for the Indian govt’s abysmal failure to tackle the second Covid wave lies in the fact that the Indian Republic – built as it is on the edifice of the British colonial state – is designed to work only on behalf of a tiny minority of Indians, leaving the vast majority to fend for themselves.
Even the global health crisis that unfolded in the past year has not deterred the current government from executing its plans for ‘ease of doing business’.
A survey conducted in October 2020 shows widespread hunger across 11 States. In the midst of the devastating second wave, immediate relief is needed.
In a society that routinely visits abuse and punishment on those who are deemed low, would the refusal of dignity at the moment of one’s passing on leave a scar on the social conscience?
While the developed world has done little to promote global vaccination, China is becoming a major supplier of covid vaccines to the developing countries following WHO’s approval to its vaccine Sinopharm; meanwhile, Modi is not willing to allow other companies to make Covishield and Covaxin – to allow their manufacturers monopoly profits.
Parul Khakkar poured out her distress in a powerful 14-line poem. Now, even as she is praised by writers and people at large for voicing the nation’s suffering, she is a target for the ruling party’s troll army.
The, Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad and RSS wanted the state to host a ‘bhavya’ Mahakumbh with minimal COVID-19 restrictions in place, but Chief Minister Rawat insisted on a symbolic festival, and so he was fired overnight in March 2021.
Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, the bunch of integrity-free incompetents Mr Modi has gathered around him as his ministers – all need to go. And immediately, in order for the country to launch the mammoth operation of recovery and repair needed for our survival.
When the age of reason returns, the people responsible should be held to account for the biblical scale of suffering they have inflicted on a people who trusted them.
What is happening in India right now is mass murder. The dead demand that mystical veils of inscrutability be ripped from history, for beneath them lie the banally obvious explanation for this carnage: capitalism.
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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