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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Like the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s macabre novel 1984, PM Modi’s regime has waged war on truth, doctoring statistics and other indices of performance; even going to the extent of lobbying international agencies to bump up India’s position in the global rankings.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a coalition of 40+ farmers’ unions, contends that the Centre is proposing to undermine the federal rights of state governments by surrendering India’s food security and compromising its national sovereignty under the slogan ‘One Nation, One Market’.
The Central Government recently decided to abolish the “no-detention” policy for students in classes 5 and 8 in schools under its jurisdiction. The recent amendment, it is feared, may deprive a considerable section from poor and rural sections of a “Right” they seemed to be making all efforts to making maximum use of.
An analysis of the India State of Forest Report 2023 – which faced a year-long delay with no official explanation.
There is a saying that our dreams ought to be what define our individuality. As the English poet and philosopher William Blake put it in sharper focus, ‘No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings’. But the Modi Government’s diplomacy leaps out of Kautilya’s Arthashastra.
Protests have broken out in Pithampur over fears that the treatment of refuse from the 1984 industrial disaster may pollute the environment.
In a recent ruling, Justices B. Nagarathna and Kotiswar Singh of the Supreme Court stated that there is a “growing tendency” for women to misuse Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) — their observations risk perpetuating harmful stereotypes about women misusing the legal system.
Madhu Limaye (1st May 1922-8th January 1995) was a committed socialist, a distinguished parliamentarian, champion of civil liberties, a prolific writer and dedicated to the cause of the common man of the country. He played a pivotal role in the freedom movement and later in the liberation of Goa from the Portuguese.
Ever since the Modi Government came to power in 2014, it has been claiming that its economic policies have made India one of the fastest growing large economies in the world. India is expected to become a 5 trillion dollar economy by 2027-28. This article attempts to analyse these projections.
In the words of activist Harsh Mander, a prominent target of the regime, the “election results of 2024 have not erased the dangers of fascism. The cadres of the Hindu Right remain powerful and motivated.”
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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