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Let us hope and trust that the future has stored a better India, with a strong democracy and complete and truthful enforcement of fundamental and constitutional rights, says the senior advocate.
Long before the BJP came into existence, nearly four decades ago, the Sangh Parivar has many times betrayed its uneasiness with the Constitution. In fact, many of the sarsangchalaks of the RSS took a public stand for scrapping the Constitution.
In this article, we first discuss the National Education Policy 2020, and then the budget allocations for school and higher education in the eleven budgets presented by the Modi Government from 2014-15 to 2024-25.
A right-wing, pro-government, Islamophobic wave has swept India’s films, especially from Bollywood, after 2014. Although the Tamil and Malayalam film industries, in addition to independent and documentary filmmakers, are pushing back against the trend, self-censorship and extra-judicial pressure to conform to unwritten restrictions is now routine across India.
As the BJP’s obsession with conformity gathers pace, it is challenged by India’s defiant nature and lived heterogeneity.
A century after Narayana Guru’s reforms, the debate over men wearing shirts in temples lays bare shifting caste alliances and Hindutva’s influence.
Neoliberalism has empowered India’s big capital to control the state, reversing an earlier relationship. Capital, once subordinate and nationally defined, now dominates and defines the nation, using the state to advance its global business interests.
In Northeast India, a controversial hydropower dam moves toward completion – causing great uncertainty for downstream dwellers whose livelihoods depend on the river.
Mehta’s greatest contribution in the Constituent Assembly was to the cause of women’s rights. As one of only fifteen women members in the Constituent Assembly, her constant demand for equal rights for women shaped the nature of the Constitution.
Per the Report, India witnessed extreme weather events on 255 of the 274 days of the first nine months of 2024, and these killed more than 3,200 people.
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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