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The August 1971 protest launched by the Jan Sangh in Delhi, when Modi courted arrest, was to protest the India-USSR Treaty of Friendship – a treaty which gave India the diplomatic cover needed to wage war against Pakistan later that year.
The demand for reservations is conducted in a moral and political vacuum – there is absolutely no debate, no discussion and no political consensus on the need for equalising life chances.
N.S. Vinodh’s ‘A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo: The Life and Times of Syud Hossain’ is about a man who played an important – if supporting – role in the independence struggle.
There are six attributes that the farmers’ protest has come to exemplify. Like the prime minister, the author has put them in an acronym.
Indians are already among the most overworked workers globally. Despite their long hours, Indian workers are not making much money. India had the lowest statutory minimum wage of any country in the Asia Pacific region, except for Bangladesh as of 2019.
News from across the country about Bharat Bandh on March 26; Mahapanchayat at Kanyakumari on March 27; Police barge in to stop farmers’ Press Conference in Ahmedabad; 5-day padyatra from Haryana concludes at Delhi border; Farmers, jawans and youth together celebrate Shahid Diwas.
On Shahid Diwas, we need to ponder over the extent to which the ruling regime and society have moved away from Bhagat Singh’s ideals of equality and justice, communal harmony, respecting and advancing the rights of workers and farmers, resisting imperialism at all levels.
Academics and students in India have been facing an immediate, sharp and existential threat since 2014.
Remembering Professor Mushirul Hasan, Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, today is also to mourn the demise of the hopelessly utopian idea of composite culture.
On 8 January 2021, JACAFRE published an open letter saying that the three new farm laws will effectively make farmers and small traders of agricultural produce subservient to the interests of a few agrifood and e-commerce giants or will eradicate them completely.
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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