India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Sukirtharani (b. 1973) is a poet and social activist known for her sharp critique of the caste system and the oppression of women. Last month, the Oversight Committee of the Delhi University removed two of Sukirtharani’s poems from the English Honours syllabus.
Conventionally, it is private investment that drives capitalism. But in recent times, in the U.S. and China, it is public investment that has been the driving force.
A new wave of Dalit artists, musicians and writers is catalyzing the movement for equality by popularizing the struggles of their communities and raising the consciousness of Indian society.
The 2020 lockdown and the partial state shutdowns have hurt millions of informal workers in India, with female workers bearing the brunt of the crisis.
Instead of a sombre memorial for those who lost their lives in the gruesome violence, historians and activists argue that the government has turned the memorial into a flashy site, and criticise it as an “insult” to the martyrs and a bid at erasing history and heritage. Also: Jallianwala Bagh Revamp: Martyrs’ Descendants Say They’ll Boycott Functions in Protest.
The Indian athletes at Tokyo gave it all they could but a familiar ugliness has surfaced after the event. Officials, politicians, and sponsors are jumping on to the bandwagon of the medallists, while some who failed face the wrath of officials.
There are crucial differences between the anti-colonial nationalism of the third world countries and European bourgeois nationalism. That is why the third world countries adopted a dirigeste capitalist development strategy, that insulated peasant agriculture from domestic and foreign capitalists. Neoliberalism is undermining this.
The event seeks to bring a long-delayed global awareness about the operations of an exclusionary and discriminatory ideology.
Though unlike one another in tone and texture, ‘Adaab’, ‘Toba Tek Singh’ and ‘Garm Hawa’ have the same point of departure: that religion as the primary marker of identity is as irrational as it is abhorrent.
Casteism is at the core of this boxing drama, but the film is accomplished in all departments, with a few loud moments that jar.
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.
Address: D-15, Ganesh Prasad, Naushir Bharucha Marg, Mumbai- 400007.