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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
‘On His 135th Birth Anniversary, We Ask, Would Ambedkar be Allowed Free Speech in India Today?’. Also: ‘Why Marginalised Groups Celebrate Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Birthday: A Contemporary Analysis of His Relevance in India Today’.
Phule was born almost 200 years ago, but his teachings remains very pertinent for understanding and fighting caste in India today.
An agitation demanding the end of ‘Brahmin control’ over the Mahabodhi temple has struck a chord in Maharashtra and other states.
The government’s decision to withhold the full survey data has sparked a separate controversy surrounding transparency and data privacy. Also: ‘Telangana Caste Census and the End of Data Oppression’.
When India finally gained independence, the RSS, which is the parent organisation of the BJP, began to oppose the Indian national flag and the Constitution.
“Will Maharashtra Government be Held Accountable for Negligence in Prevention of Atrocities of SC/STs?”; and: “’Take Action Against Cops Who Brutalised Dalit People’: Hundreds Begin Foot March from Parbhani to Mumbai”.
A discussion of some of the key elements that made Karpoori Thakur one of the tallest socialist leaders in Bihar. It discusses some of the important contemporary implications of the politics that Thakur espoused and practised.
An article commemorating the birth centenary one of the most noble persons in India’s politics, Karpoori Thakur, social reformer and two-time chief minister of Bihar.
The writer of India’s Constitution never favoured a time-bound framework for quotas. Misquoting him ducks questions on what has really changed for lower castes.
The Allahabad University professor is battling police cases, varsity raps on his knuckles and volleys of harassment over his comments against the caste structure of Hinduism. But he is unrelenting.
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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