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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Review of book, ‘Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes’, by Tariq Ali: There is a great disconnect between Churchill’s popular image and the larger context of his life and times. Ali’s book very much illuminates the former with the latter.
Although Netaji was not around when independent India embarked on its five-year plans in the 1950s, it is obvious that the work of the Planning Committee he co-founded had been the pathfinder.
Thoughts on the Mahatma’s 75th death anniversary.
Full text of Nehru’s speech to the Constituent Assembly on February 2, 1948: “A glory has departed and the sun that warmed and brightened our lives has set and we shiver in the cold and dark.”
In 1937, Jawaharlal Nehru was elected president of the Congress for the third time. Cognisant and cautious of the dangers of his own pride and position, he wrote this essay, in which he stressed the importance of questioning the motives of leaders, and checking the power they hold.
In 1916, Lala Lajpat Rai wrote an article questioning a speech by Gandhi, and said that elevation of ahimsa to the highest doctrine had led to the downfall of India. Gandhi responded to Rai’s critique, reminding us of the evils of violence. We print Gandhi’s reply here.
Press statement on the occasion of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s 126th birth anniversary by his daughter. Also: Her statement critiquing RSS’s planned celebrations of her father’s birthday. Also: “Netaji’s Secular Outlook, and Why He was Disappointed With Jinnah, Savarkar” by S.N. Sahu.
Veer Narayan Singh (1795-1857) is remembered today as a great freedom fighter of Chattisgarh and India who sacrificed his life fighting colonial rulers. However there is more to his valiant life that we need to remember, in particular his combination of great courage and concern for his people.
A scholarly study found that British colonialism caused approximately 165 million deaths in India from 1880 to 1920, while stealing trillions of dollars of wealth. The global capitalist system was founded on European imperial genocides, which inspired Adolf Hitler and led to fascism.
Review of P. Sainath’s book, “The Last Heroes, Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom”
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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