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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Recently, a well-known journalist, Dileep Mandal, who has been appointed to the post of Consultant by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, has advanced the preposterous claim that Fatima Shaikh, whose name is inextricably linked with that of the iconic Savitri Bai Phule, is a figment of his own imagination.
A report on the battle to save environmental heritage and traditional livelihoods in India’s smallest state, where infrastructure for tourists and wealthy migrants is wrecking the beauty that brings them there.
Conservative attitudes, poor awareness and misconceptions are major hurdles in getting the reproductive health procedure which is perfectly legal.
Ever since the Modi Government came to power in 2014, it has been claiming that its economic policies have made India one of the fastest growing large economies in the world. India is expected to become a 5 trillion dollar economy by 2027-28. This article attempts to analyse these projections.
In this second article of our budget analysis of the past 10 years of the Modi Government, we critically analyse the unemployment data given in official documents that claim that unemployment in the country has fallen to historic lows.
Nehru wrote to his Chief Ministers on the 1st and 15th of each month and he had written 400 letters from 1947 to 1963. Three letters from “Letters for A Nation: From Jawaharlal Nehru to His Chief Ministers (1947-1963)”, edited by Madhav Khosla.
‘Who Does June 4 Belong to?’; ‘A New Dawn’: With no one party with a clear majority, it means a return to the days of more parliamentary influence on governance; ‘Results That Give Hindutva a Jolt’; ‘Voters Force Narendra Modi to Become a Labharthi of his Allies’.
The idea of India will always exceed all that is said about it, or against it.
The author argues that the rise of Modi-led authoritarianism in India is an outcome of the failure of the neoliberal project to deliver anything substantial to the majority of the population in the last three decades.
A collective of citizens and organisations together released a “charge sheet” on February 9, 2024 against the Government of India showcasing how this regime, into its second term, has subverted parliamentary democracy.
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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