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A study finds Indian Muslims to be systematically disadvantaged, less likely to have public schools, clinics, sewerage, water supply and closed drains than in non-Muslim areas, a misallocation of government services that is comparable to the current situation of blacks in the United States.
“We have become refugees in our own country, we are ‘internally displaced’ not by climate change but by the changing political climate, not by dams but by the mob, held prisoner not for any crimes but for having a conscience”, writes Indira Jaising.
Home Minister Amit Shah promised that the bills would overhaul our criminal justice system. However, the proposed reforms may be colonial in spirit too.
A study in Andhra Pradesh compares three prevalent farming methods, analysing their overall benefits such as production, economic impact and social and health implications. It concludes that community-based natural farming offers superior benefits in terms of higher yields, crop diversity and income for farmers.
In one corner of Syria — the northern border regions known to the Kurds as Rojava — hope for a better world lives on. Bordered on all sides by hostile reactionary forces, Rojava stands defiantly as a beacon for human solidarity, cooperation, and progress.
“We have completed one journey of consolidating our freedom, the foundations of which were laid a hundred years ago by our people with their blood, sweat and tears… We have today to remember the lessons of unity, religious tolerance and fellow feeling taught by Mahatma Gandhi and other great sons of India and go forward in a united and determined manner.”
The Congress leader not only laid down how INDIA parties considered ‘Bharat’ as a union of diverse and equal voices but also how the Modi government’s decisions have been largely controlled by corporate interests. Also: Rahul Gandhi’s criticism of PM Modi’s reply to no-confidence motion.
The rhetorical question posed by former President KR Narayanan saved the Constitution from a previous assault. We need to raise it to ourselves and the State once again.
A BJP-friendly NRI businessman’s proposal to Niti Aayog paved the way for the creation of a task force that authored a report pushing for corporatisation of agriculture as a way to double farmers’ income. Subsequently, the Adani Group lobbied to remove curbs on hoarding. Farm laws did just that.
In recent years, a slew of anti-conversion laws have been passed in many states. They blur the line between forced conversions and the right to choose one’s religion.
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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