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The parliament’s fall as an institution of functioning democracy was accompanied by axe on the Election Commission and CAG. Also: The INDIA alliance parties need to recognize the magnitude of the historical moment they are navigating. Unity is, therefore, an existential imperative. Are they aware of this reality?
‘Telecommunications Bill Lays the Ground for Totalitarian Control of the Internet’; ‘With Cleverly Drafted Telecom Bill, Government Tightens Grip on Digital India’; ‘Three New Laws Give the Govt Extraordinary Powers Over Journalism, Entertainment and Internet’; and ‘Telecommunications Bill, 2023: Of the State, By the State, and For the State’.
Delivering the Smt Bansari Sheth Endowment Lecture, the judge noted that four “most disturbing” things have happened in the country this year itself. He also was severely critical of the Supreme Court’s recent judgement on the Centre’s J&K decision.
Tarunabh Khaitan, a professor of Public Law, says that India’s democracy is in peril, and that the Union government under Narendra Modi is “killing the constitution with a thousand cuts”.
The tragedy in India is that an external threat to security has seen the state weaponise all forms of governance systems against its own citizens.
India has a robust and admired statistical system. But the government is suppressing data to suit its narrative. It is perilous not to know the reality of the governed.
The all-out assault on the autonomy of Ashoka University and its regrettable capitulation to such menacing interferences reminds one of British rule, when universities of pre-independent India were being controlled by the colonial government directly or indirectly.
This Teachers’ Day, we must remember the teachers who have been suspended, penalised, arrested, jailed, or forced to quit for being independent and teaching students this independence.
“We have become refugees in our own country, we are ‘internally displaced’ not by climate change but by the changing political climate, not by dams but by the mob, held prisoner not for any crimes but for having a conscience”, writes Indira Jaising.
“Gandhian Institutions Under Attack! Sarva Sewa Sangh Campus, in Rajghat, Varanasi, Bulldozed!”; Also: “NAPM Condemns the Vindictive Targeting of Progressive Media Houses, Including NewsClick”.
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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