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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Out of 381 martyrs, 222 were Hindus, 96 Sikhs and 63 Muslims. Thus, before the appearance of protagonists of Hindu and Muslim separatism, Indian freedom struggle was a united movement over-riding religious and caste divisions. It was a true anti-colonial movement for an inclusive India.
‘Urdu’s Exile Diminishes Indian Pluralism’; ‘Row over Urdu and a Tale of Two Non-Hindi Knowing Prime Ministers of India’; and: ‘Supreme Court Verdict Allowing Urdu Signage Reaffirms that India is a Multilingual Democracy’.
‘A Lunch on Eid’; ‘In Pain Yet Unbroken: Eid at Sambhal’; and: ‘An Iftar at Hazrat Nizamuddin’s Dargah, a Date with History’.
‘We Need Festivals of Confluence, Not Orgies of Conflict’; ‘It’s Time to Remember Gandhi’s Views on Holi and Ramzan’; and: ‘From Mughals, Maharajas to the British – How Artists Captured Holi Celebrations’.
‘A Message for Communal Harmony from Ajmer Dargah Sharif’: On Martyrs’ Day, people in Ajmer marched for peace to the iconic dargah, driven by three stories that span centuries. Also: ‘A Mosque, A Movement, A Legacy: The Story of Ludhiana Jama Masjid’.
In Ladakh, two drastically opposite visions of energy transition are colliding head-on. The first a grassroots, indigenous approach that emphasises on low-impact and socio-ecologically just energy practices; the other a government and corporate driven, technocratic vision pushing for large-scale energy infrastructure and critical mineral mining.
Today we are facing a revivalist moment in our political history, ironically, as a free nation. It is a defeatist hangover of history to create a wedge between what we named and what named us. We adopted these names for centuries out of a spirit we call Indian, or Bharatiya.
Raging arguments over who was indeed Indian were put to rest with a vote that spoke in favour of an Article 5 without religious markers.
Mosques were built by sailors during the lifetime of the Prophet, since the 7th century, along the coasts of India. The most famous of these is the Cheraman Juma Masjid in Kerala’s Thrissur district, widely believed to be the oldest mosque in the subcontinent.
A People’s Initiative to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi on the 30th of January 2024, as a day of national unity, communal harmony, non-violence & peace.
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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