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What happened to Professor Tejaswini Desai of Kolhapur can happen to anyone in the teaching community. It tells you of the perils of being a teacher in India of our times
Calling Manipur violence “state-sponsored”, a fact finding team of the National Federation of Indian Women has said that what is occurring currently in State is “not communal violence, nor a fight between two communities. It involves the questions of land, resources, and the presence of fanatics and militants.”
The PCPSPS statement says that the recent multiple train accident near Balasore in Odisha is a reminder that enhancing safety of railways must be given preference over the introduction of high-speed passenger trains. Also: “Modi Government Wants Trains That Run Faster Than a Bullet, But Can Railway Infrastructure Keep Up?”
Uniformity versus Equal Rights: The 21st Law Commission report can and should form the basis for taking forward the struggle for women’s equal rights across communities; why is the BJP refusing to discuss this report. Also: “Why the Uniform Civil Code has Few Takers in the North East”.
Egypt’s president conferred on PM Modi the ‘Order of the Nile’. The Grand Mufti of Egypt discussed communal harmony with him. And yet, memories of the Gujarat carnage and daily news of lynchings make such updates sound hollow.
India appears to be running away from the complexities of the current world situation. That is why the salience of the virtual summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation [SCO] under India’s chairmanship on Tuesday becomes highly disturbing. Where is India’s SCO policy heading?
‘The Grand Old Man of India’ was not only one of the founder members of the Indian National Congress but also one whose vision shaped the organisation.
The idea of Athens as mother of democracy was pushed by modern scholars of ancient Greece and Rome. Ancient Greek and Roman writers on India themselves found several similarities with political structures in the subcontinent.
Cultural diversity, as the 21st law commission said, cannot be compromised to the extent that an urge for uniformity becomes the reason for a threat to the territorial integrity of the democratic nation. Also: Flavia Agnes, an eminent lawyer, questions the timing and intention of raking up the UCC.
Article and Press Release condemning the brazen and disgraceful attempts by the BJP Government to arbitrarily occupy and destroy two of the most reputed Gandhian institutions of the country, Gandhi Vidya Sansthan and Sarva Seva Sangh, situated in Varanasi.
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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