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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Thousands of families have occupied pavements in the city for decades and continue to do so, despite knowing that their shelters can torn down any day.
The World Bank’s latest poverty estimate delivers shocking news: India added a whopping 79% of new extreme poor to the world population in 2020. In absolute numbers, it says, the global population of extreme poor grew by 71 million and India added 56 million to this.
The informal working class makes the city, but the city has no place for its own makers.
The tax system heavily favours large corporations, and has become even more so in recent times.
This is a retrogressive draft Bill, which will boost the monopoly power of a handful of telecom companies over the internet and legalise the government’s 360-degree surveillance of citizens.
Tagore’s play Mukta-Dhara foretells the manner in which people across the country have been losing their freedom — those uprooted by development quite obviously so, those ‘benefitting’ from it (mostly living in cities) more subtly and invisibly. This is the ecologically fatal price of ‘progress’, which Rabindranath anticipated in much of his work.
Their health, and the health of their children, is put at risk because they lack the documents needed to obtain the biometric number.
As a result of this, the world’s sources of freshwater, representing one of the planetary boundaries designated by natural science, are being monopolized as natural capital by relatively few companies who will be able to charge market rents for the ecosystem services.
The current fall in the rupee is structural in nature and hence non-transient. It has been caused by two specific factors neither of which is transient: one is a widening of the current deficit, and the other is a net outflow of finance from the economy to dollars or dollar-denominated assets.
Netaji was very clear that religion had no place in public life and could not be used to unite Indians.
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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