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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Guru Nanak lived and treaded this world for seven decades from 1469 to 1539 AD. In the course of his life and travels, he touched upon many aspects of the knowledge and practices prevalent then, the ubiquitous religious bigotry and a society fragmented and fractured along caste and gender lines.
Business models of companies reveal precarious working conditions and exploitation of employees.
Ambedkar would have been shocked by Prime Minister taking his name along with Savarkar in his Independence Day speech in the context of service to the nation.
Delivered to the Constituent Assembly on August 14, 1947, Nehru’s speech has been quoted often in the 75 years since it was first heard. The words stir a listener, reminding her of the spirit, trials and stories that make independent India. Also: a related article by Sidharth Bhatia.
The demagogue has convinced himself that the nation can be talked up and talked out of the ruler’s mistakes and mis-steps.
To mark the 75th year of India’s independence, the Modi Government initiated a campaign meant to ‘encourage people to bring the Tiranga home and to hoist it’. But the website of the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebrations is silent on what the flag symbolizes.
Seventy-five years ago, our committed freedom fighters with their many sacrifices, gave India her freedom! Bilkis Bano, today, with her relentless fight for justice and the suffering which she is still going through, has come to symbolise India’s latest struggle for freedom.
“For three of my four decades as a journalist, I argued that the Indian media are politically free but imprisoned by profit. Today I’d say they are still shackled by profit, but are increasingly politically imprisoned as well.”
In his 15 August speech, PM Modi elevated V.D. Savarkar to the pantheon of freedom fighters of the Indian freedom movement. A comparison of PM’s idolization of Savarkar with the writings of Savarkar and records of his activities available in the archives of the Hindu Mahasabha.
On the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence, we, as responsible citizens, should have been flagging the issues of hunger, dwindling health parameters, poverty and lack of quality education which make many of our fellow citizens less free.
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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