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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The CJI rightly asked why independent India needs a colonial-era law used to convict freedom fighters, for the law cannot persist unless a vestige of colonial mindset persists.
It cannot be overemphasised that by not criminalising marital rape, the State effectively endorses the view that forced conjugal relations are acceptable. It also implies that women lose their bodily autonomy when they enter into a marriage.
For Stan’s thousands of admirers, the challenge is clearly to join the Adivasi people in their fight to be treated as equal human beings and also upholding their traditions, far superior to those of the ‘civilised’.
Written on hearing about Father Stan Swamy’s death in custody.
The plan to reshape the Mahatma’s Sabarmati Ashram is an act of vandalism.
The hate-filled and menacing messages on some WhatsApp groups are frightening in their implications.
To fight hunger and distress due to the pandemic, India must universalise foodgrain distribution, expand the food basket in its rations scheme and provide cash transfers. Plus article: Addressing the Nutrition Crisis in India in the Time of Covid 19 Pandemic.
Retail prices of petrol and diesel have gone up even as global crude prices dampened, and the dollar-rupee exchange rate remained relatively stable. All told, more than half the price consumers pay per litre of fuel goes to tax, of which the lion’s share goes to the central government.
Annabhau’s writings are about the struggles and qualities of the marginalized sections of society. He wanted to fuse Ambedkarism and Marxism. It is regrettable that Hindi translations of his works are not available even 50 years after his death.
K. Veeramani is perhaps the senior most of the leaders of revolutionary Periyar E.V. Ramasamy’s Dravidian movement. In this wide-ranging conversation, he gives extensive details of the background of formation of Self Respect Movement.
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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