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Nirvair Malhi, a 19-year-old high school graduate from Jalandhar, came to the Tikri border with the intention of visiting the protest for exactly a day. He has ended up staying there for the last seven months.
The Dalit feminist writer, Urmila Pawar, sums things up in her foreword by saying, “The more we see him (Dr. Ambedkar) in the round, the richer we become,” a point that can be made about no leader alive today.
The great Bengali poet, writer, thinker and artist, Rabindranath Tagore published a collection of short but deep observations on life world 100 years ago. The description of life and death in one of the stories in this collection relates closely to our everyday life in the post-COVID world.
Amidst Rain, Kisan Sansad Takes on Contract Farming; Women Farmers Hold ‘Kisan Sansad’; Farmers to Campaign Against BJP in Upcoming Polls.
A critical look at a report currently being considered by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education pertaining to school history books. It unpacks the misplaced bases of comparison used in the report, and also examines the implications of its recommendations to erase or simplify histories of caste and gender.
Opinion: Bhagwat’s Glasnost in RSS-Muslim Ties Is Welcome, But Can He Rein in Modi and Adityanath?; Counterview: The RSS’s Age-Old Agenda Is the Same, No Matter What Mohan Bhagwat Says; The Burden of Being ‘Bharatiya’ in Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu Rashtra.
This is another conversation with Thiru K Veermani which was recorded on November 1st, 2019. Veeramani says that Periyar was not opposed to Hindi, he was against its imposition on Tamil Nadu; the RSS wants to impose Hindutva culture on Tamil Nadu.
“True deaths are likely to be in the several millions, not hundreds of thousands, making this arguably India’s worst human tragedy,” said its authors, one of whom is a former chief economic adviser to the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Starting Thursday, about 200 protestors will participate in the farmers’ parliament at Jantar Mantar, which will take place on each working day of the Parliament until the ongoing Monsoon Session ends. Also – Farmers’ tractor marches in UP.
The UN Food Systems Summit, including a ‘pre-summit’, is facilitating global corporatisation of agriculture. To mobilise against it, more than 300 global organisations of small-scale food producers, researchers and indigenous peoples are organising a protest pre-summit.
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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