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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The New Education Policy does not look to build on existing strengths in higher education. Instead, its aim is total disruption: a drastic modification in the meaning of higher education itself and the facilitation of edtech.
Cases like the one on the Gyanvapi Mosque show how the legal system is being used to promote disorder.
More than 50% of Indians of legal working age don’t want a job due to the lack of suitable employment: CMIE
Experts worry that with the government aggressively promoting a “singular reductionist corporate-controlled silver bullet solution” like fortified rice, a myriad of diverse local and natural solutions will get neglected and even eroded.
Non-vegetarian food consumers have increased in India, including in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states like Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, as per data released by the recent National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5).
The Modi government has suddenly banned the export of wheat, after promoting it actively for two months. The debacle was not because of government incompetence, but the result of government’s neoliberal policy – withdrawal from procurement and the free hand given to private profiteers.
The most crucial issue is, why do the common Muslims of today’s India have to pay for the sins of ‘Muslim’ rulers of the past who had friendly and cordial relations with higher caste Hindus? We also need to investigate whether ‘Hindu’ history was devoid of religious, social and political persecution.
Most arguments put forth by the government and its functionaries don’t hold water.
When used in the diaspora, ‘Kala Pani’ refers to the large-scale migration out of India in the 1830s when hundreds of thousands of Indians left the subcontinent to work in the sugar colonies as indentured labourers, or ‘bound coolies’.
The silence of the government in responding to the demands of the working class is deafening.
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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