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Ground Down by Hardship, Farmers Ready for Historic Bandh on Sept 27; Mass Mobilisation of Farmers in UP for Bharat Bandh; Reports from Punjab and Odisha; Farmers’ Protest Spreads to Avadh and Purvanchal.
Led by the Joint Platform of Scheme Workers Federations, ASHAs, along with workers engaged in anganwadis, mid-day meal scheme and National Health Mission also demanded a legislation on ‘right to universal healthcare’.
Two of Gandhi’s most basic philosophical impulses were the dignity and responsibility of the individual; and the sacredness of life.
Today’s climate of communal rhetoric that pervades India has led to a partition of the hearts and minds of citizens. There is an alternative politics waiting to be rediscovered; a politics that emphasises that we have obligations of solidarity to our fellow citizens. Let us look for it. Let us adopt it.
Can Modi Government Solve India’s Many Problems by Raiding Activists and Journalists?; Rights Activists, Academics Condemn ED Raids Against Harsh Mander; Income Tax “Surveys” at the Offices of News Websites NewsClick and Newslaundry
On how the women of the Muslim League and nuns are ushering in a new debate on issues of gender equality and making hope possible in a state of despair; Also, article: In Kerala, the Ruling CPM and an Islamophobic Bishop Make Strange Bedfellows.
As per official MGNREGA data, in 2020-21, the year of the corona pandemic, a record 17.51 million new job cards were issued. Rising demand for low paying labour work under MGNREGA points to the failure of our policy makers to provide suitable jobs.
The dread of would-be dispossession is tangible for millions of Muslims across Assam, in its villages and cities, the char areas (river islands), and World Heritage sites.
Conventionally, it is private investment that drives capitalism. But in recent times, in the U.S. and China, it is public investment that has been the driving force.
Excerpts from a transcript of a talk given by Prof. Purushottam Agarwal on 28 Feb 2009 at “Koi Sunta Hai – A Festival of Kabir in Bengaluru”, organized by the Kabir Project: “Over the last 30 years, my engagement with Kabir, in a very deep sense, has turned into a very personal experience.”
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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