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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The real disappointment for citizens facing an unprecedented assault on their basic democratic rights is not that the Modi regime is behaving the way it is. The disappointment is with the Supreme Court.
The founder-editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India discusses the demands that should be discussed in the special session of Parliament the farmers are demanding.
In their quest for making more profits, global agribusiness giants are destroying farmer livelihoods, environment and health under the bogus claim of ‘feeding the world’. Also: a report on shocking levels of land inequality in the world.
If we believe in our Constitution’s epithet, “We, The People of India”, then, on Constitution Day, we should be taking affirmative steps to ensure that women, tribals and the poor who have been ignored all these years are now included in our national narrative.
“In several cases, the Court has refused to act in defence of citizens who have been victimised for their protest and dissent or for simply exercising their fundamental right of speech and expression.”
The Centre is asking state-owned companies to buy back their shares, and dole out dividends to help the government raise funds to meet its deficit – policies which are hurting companies in the long run.
What was earlier seen by some as an antidote to the BJP’s polarising politics seems to have gone on to another plane.
Nehru was not a heedless advocate of mega dams. On the contrary, he would be not out of place in the world of today.
The legislations take India back to the British era when slavery was a norm, workers organisations said in a note given to MPs before the bills were tabled in the House in September.
In September, amid protests against the controversial new agricultural laws, the Modi government announced the MSP for six rabi crops. Official documents show that several states, including BJP-ruled ones, said the increase was minor.
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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