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‘We hope and trust the Supreme Court will rise to the occasion and not let the citizens and the Constitution down at this critical juncture,’ write 12 prominent former judges and senior advocates. Also: Bharat Dogra – “Bulldozing Structures or Demolishing Democracy?”
The recent decision by the UN General Assembly to declare 18 June as the International Day for Countering Hate Speech is significant. It comes at a special moment of world history, when hate speech in several parts of the globe, including India, seem to have become the order of the day.
Gig workers, such as food delivery riders and app-based cab drivers, are increasingly becoming one of the most visible faces of urban employment. This article discusses various aspects of the nature of employment in the gig economy, especially for those who can be referred to as ‘blue collar’ gig workers.
Every book that is written on the past by an aspiring historian is not history. History is a specialised discipline that wends a careful and delicate way through the maze of what happened.
Parliament was aware of the clamour to resurrect temples destroyed centuries ago by now destroying mosques in their stead. So, it made additional provisions to end all possible avenues for agitating real or perceived historical wrongs of that nature.
Historian DN Jha’s ‘Against the Grain’, gives a long list of religious sites that were appropriated or destroyed, making it clear that ancient India witnessed a level of religious violence that was certainly not insignificant.
CEA report states that 202 thermal power plants generated 232.56 MT of ash in 2020-21. Apart from flooding caused by overflow of fly ash slurry, the toxic waste, which is a by-product of coal combustion process, is also known to cause large-scale air pollution.
The IT cell of a communal organization has been carrying out false propaganda about the role of Mahatma Gandhi regarding the hanging of the Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. The fact is, Gandhi made immense efforts to get their death sentence cancelled, but he was not successful.
The Hindu right wing has been trying to appropriate the legacy of Gandhi, Ambedkar and Subhas Chandra Bose in a bid to acquire legitimacy. All of them despised the Sangh Parivar.
The experience of the committee on farm laws is a story of ingenious farmers beating the state and its experts in their own game. The committee tried to depict a distorted picture about the farm laws by pushing the agenda of the state. However, the sagacious farmers forced it to bite the dust.
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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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