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He and his fellow soldiers will be always remembered for their courage and sacrifice in refusing to fire on peaceful protesters offering non-violent resistance. Thereby a new and glorious chapter was added and a new dimension was given to the history of non-violent struggles against injustice.
Abuses and threats to his life were hurled at him, but he did not flinch from putting forth the evidentiary and the analytical positions that emerged from his in-depth studies.
While skirmishes continue on the borders of India, Sameer Arshad Khatlani explores the deeply embedded syncretic elements in the heritage left behind by the founder of Sikhism. Part of his legacy still lives on in Pakistan.
With some 36 productions—feature films, telefilms, documentaries—Ray has traversed a greater range of subjects than any other Indian film-maker. Many believe the mantle of Tagore has fallen on Ray. Even by a conservative estimate, he is the best film-maker India has produced.
Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus all formed the Indian National Army, and they all fought for India’s freedom – displaying Subhas Bose’s absolute commitment to the unity and equality of all Indians.
At a recent webinar organized by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, scholars and artists laid bare the seldom-discussed problem of caste in the performing arts of South India.
Made 95 years ago, Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece hasn’t lost any of its power.
Tracing the genesis and trajectory of women’s educational reform in Aligarh through the profile of a woman reformer – Waheed Jahan (1886-1939), the co-founder of Aligarh’s first girls’ school.
The historical anthropologist says that there is a growing argument for a human history that predates war altogether and further points out that war is not innate to human nature, but instead, is a social and cultural development that begins at certain points around the globe.
Remembering Sahir Ludhianvi, one of India’s finest ever poet-lyricists, on his birth centenary.
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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