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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Press statement on the occasion of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s 126th birth anniversary by his daughter. Also: Her statement critiquing RSS’s planned celebrations of her father’s birthday. Also: “Netaji’s Secular Outlook, and Why He was Disappointed With Jinnah, Savarkar” by S.N. Sahu.
Rohith Vemula passed away on 17 January, 2016. Seven years later, Yashica Dutt writes on the impact of his words. Also: Rohit Vemula’s letter of 17 January 2016.
Bachchan said: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, let us discover more of that which is impossible and then do it. Let us bring down the barriers that have blinded our view of the horizons.’ Also: Comment by Apoorvanand: “For Speaking an Unpleasant Truth, Will Amitabh Bachchan Now be Called an Enemy of the People?”
Since the first reservation implemented by the Maharaja of Kolhapur to the days of independence, quota in education and public services has been a mechanism to alleviate social degradation, not poverty.
Vivekananda was not a traditional Hindu monk but a modern ascetic with a scientific and materialist outlook. Unlike other saints, he did not offer prayers to the Almighty for his own salvation but sought salvation of the poor and the marginalised.
Experts point out that this was a disaster waiting to happen because the authorities ignored multiple warnings over decades about the way roads and hydropower projects were being built.
The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ seeks to bring home to us the loss we are experiencing, and recalls us to a moral and systemic commitment that our leaderships prior to the era in hand had forged and nursed. Also: ‘Puja Versus Tapasya’: Why Rahul Gandhi’s Formulation Has Meaning.
Anuradha Bhasin’s new book, ‘A Dismantled State: The Untold Story of Kashmir After Article 370’, goes deep into the saga of a people betrayed and promises broken.
Young Muslim women in Karnataka recount how a court order legitimised Hindutva prejudice and locked them out of an education.
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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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