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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
On 1 February 2025, Zakiaben was called to her eternal reward. In her death, the people of India have lost a great soul. She suffered much since that fateful day, when her dear husband Ehsan Jafri was brutally murdered. Since then, she fought relentlessly for justice not merely for herself but all women and other victims of an unjust and violent system.
The Uniform Civil Code in Uttarakhand promotes state control in personal relationships, including marriages, divorces, matrimonial disputes, and live-in relationships, as well as in matters of succession and inheritance. Also: ‘Live-in Relationships and the War Against Women’s Agency’; and: ‘Why This Live-In Couple is Taking on Uttarakhand’s Uniform Civil Code’.
Karwan-e-Mohabbat held a commemoration ceremony on 26 February 2025 marking five years since the violence in Delhi in February 2020 in the presence of victim and survivor families. Also: ‘In Five Years, “Virtually No Compensation” Has Been Given to Delhi Riots Victims: Karwan-e-Mohabbat Report’.
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.
According to a CSSS report, 49 out of 59 cases of communal riots took place in states where the BJP is ruling either on its own, or in coalition with other parties. Also: What kind of country is it where only Christians have to worry about attacks on Christians, and the rest of society remains deaf to their concerns?
In Assam, thousands who depend on the cattle economy—including farmers, cow herders, meat merchants and restaurants—have plunged into economic distress after the CM on 4 December 2024 expanded a ban on slaughtering cattle and selling it around religious places to eating and serving beef in public.
“In DU’s Daulat Ram College, Students Witness Saffronisation of a ‘Safe Place’”; and: “A Controversial ‘Book Launch’ and Delhi University’s Descent Into Party Propaganda”: It is certainly not the job of our our academic leaders to open the gates of universities to those in power and join them in trampling the garden of knowledge.
What the RSS chief said a few days ago is that India indeed got political independence in 1947 and real freedom came with the consecration ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi recently accompanied Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on a visit to a temple near Mhow, where they propitiated a deity together, with the Army Chief dressed in traditional devotee attire.
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.
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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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