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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Karthika Naïr talks of Shaheen Bagh and of her poem “Ghazal: India’s Season of Dissent”, of the politics of literature, and of how literary texts can “respond” to violence, grief and pain.
Sugathakumari not only produced some of the most iconic works of Malayalam poetry during her illustrious poetic career spanning almost six decades, she was also a leading social activist.
Jesuit Priest Father Stan Swamy (83) writes he’s pained to see so many young inmates in Taloja Jail, shares a Christmas message of compassion.
In works like ‘Home and the World’, ‘Gora’ and ‘Where the mind is without fear’, the Nobel Laureate demonstrated his opposition to aggressive nationalism.
The renowned dancer-choreographer says that the internal relation between dance and the dancer and the external relation between dance and society are questions that cannot be taken lightly.
Faruqi (1935-2020) was simultaneously a high-quality writer, competent critic, respected poet, high-ranking short-story writer, authentic researcher, and expert of prosody and grammar.
‘Modern Times’ was not only Chaplin’s last silent film. It was also his Tramp’s swansong.
Working out the basic nature of reality according to quantum mechanics is a little bit like an impossible Sudoku.
Modi’s wanton quoting of Tagore strikes as too much of an attempt to woo Bengalis in election season, considering the overall unfamiliarity with Tagore and his verses, displayed by BJP leaders. Also: Students protest Amit Shah’s visit to Visva-Bharati.
Forty years after his murder in New York City, we remember John Lennon’s record of political engagement as a champion of the anti-war movement and a self-styled “instinctive socialist”—which brought him into conflict with Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover.
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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