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While the Modi regime and the likes of Ambanis and Adanis are being rightly targeted by farmers unions, it is time they also went after their international backers, who are the paymasters behind the ‘business friendly’ legislation.
On 30 January, we would like to remember a Gandhiji which the current establishment would rather forget, namely someone who was deeply committed to the ideal of ‘political freedom’ which was not just ‘freedom from the British’ but a commitment to fundamental values and principles.
The former Chief of the Naval Staff has penned an open letter to President Kovind expressing his deep concern and anguish regarding the turn of events on Republic Day.
A months-long agitation cannot be not delegitimised on the basis of one day. You need to have the clarity of Gandhi, the eternal resister to injustice, to refuse to give up the idea of civil resistance if a section of the resisters fails to fully restrain itself.
Sixty-two days of protest and 170 deaths so far—this is the colossal price that farmers have paid to sustain their relentless protest against the Centre’s farm laws ever since they arrived at the gates of Delhi.
The scenes at the Red Fort may have been disturbing. But the real darkness on the horizon is not the protest, or the turn it might have taken. It is the turn Indian democracy is taking, almost as if it is on the road to perdition.
Quite contrary to what many had anticipated, the state crackdown on farmers’ leaders, together with attacks by BJP goons, has breathed a new life into the agitation. Farmers are joining the agitation in growing numbers.
Over the last two decades, international agencies and the Indian government have been preparing the ground for takeover of farmer lands by corporate houses. Towards this end, as the first step, the government is trying to establish a system of ‘conclusive titling’ of all land in the country.
The stories of the epic farmers’ movement have been captured in Trolley Times, a four-page biweekly newsletter that was founded on December 18. Some excerpts.
Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus all formed the Indian National Army, and they all fought for India’s freedom – displaying Subhas Bose’s absolute commitment to the unity and equality of all Indians.
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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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