India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Rammanohar Lohia embodied some noble aspirations for his country and represented an important strand of opinion in Indian political life. And in the socialist movement, his was the decisive influence at many critical turning points.
If the Union government thinks that the Global Hunger Index’s methodology is ‘unscientific’, here is another Index that shows a troubling picture for the state of ‘Access Inequality in Basic Amenities’ across India.
Sections that give the police the power to disperse a crowd with force have been abused, resulting in hundreds of deaths.
The absolute number of persons ‘employed’ in agriculture in 2019-20 rose a massive 17.3 per cent over the figure for 2018-19. But this is not a sign of prosperity but hardship.
From Love Songs to Kurta Ads, Urdu Is Popular with Indians. Why do Hindutva Backers Hate it So Much?; Who Says Urdu Is a Muslim Language?
Many of today’s aspiring political scientists use the course as a tool to crack the civil services code, thereby losing the loftier goals at the heart of the discipline.
In the name of spurring ‘growth’ and ‘employment’ the Modi government has decisively reduced taxes levied on big business while increasing the burden on common people through direct and indirect taxation.
While agricultural output is said to be doing well, that does not mean those who work in agriculture, i.e., peasants and agricultural labourers, are doing well. As a larger number of people desperately looked for ways to earn a living, the income per person working in agriculture actually declined.
Separating electricity from the wires that transmit is a crazy dream of a few market fundamentalists. The Modi government is attempting this failed policy again, and state-owned distribution companies and consumers will suffer.
The Central government continues to squeeze millions of Indians by relentlessly raising the prices of essential fuels, such as cooking gas and petrol/diesel. The real reason for this price rise: the Modi government has been relentlessly increasing excise duty on petroleum products.
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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