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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”.
There is a paradox in authoritarian attempts to control intellectual and artistic activity; rulers recognize power of writers, artists, or even academics to move and influence people.
On Saturday, over 500 policemen entered the campus of Sarva Seva Sangh, Varanasi, forcefully evicted residents, threw books and furniture out in the rain, and left the employees jobless and homeless, even while a civil suit challenging the eviction is pending in court.
Opposition unity has greatly increased the likelihood of a defeat for the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. However, democracies can only survive if their leaders are willing to accept defeat and fight for power through the ballot, instead of the bullet. Modi has shown a reluctance to do this throughout the 22 years he has enjoyed power at Gandhinagar and Delhi.
What happened to Professor Tejaswini Desai of Kolhapur can happen to anyone in the teaching community. It tells you of the perils of being a teacher in India of our times
Article and Press Release condemning the brazen and disgraceful attempts by the BJP Government to arbitrarily occupy and destroy two of the most reputed Gandhian institutions of the country, Gandhi Vidya Sansthan and Sarva Seva Sangh, situated in Varanasi.
‘The assassins of Mahatma Gandhi were not worshipped during the 1975 Emergency. Boys and girls were free to choose partners of their choice. They were not persecuted in the name of ‘love jihad’.’
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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