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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The silence of Modi and Shah about the unprecedented calls for full-scale armed war against Muslims can be read in one of two ways: as signs of their sense of impunity and confidence, or as signs of their sense of precarity and insecurity. The latter appears to be more probable.
Through “nationalised banks-NBFC” deals, the Modi government is trying to achieve what the three farm laws could not achieve.
The farmers’ historic struggle and victory has upset not merely political arrogance but conventional wisdom in more than one way. It has shown the limitations of class analysis, and has thrown up new ideas for organizing peaceful protests in a democracy.
In the past few years, a significant number of young men and women in India have been attracted to a dangerous alt-right digital ecosystem called ‘trad-wing’, in which they serve as self-styled civilisational warriors.
When people refer to Indian “tradition” they assume it was fixed for thousands of years. But that is not true. Hindu wedding rituals contain ideas from Harappan and Vedic times, to practices that came with the Greeks, Sakas, Kushan, Huns, Turks, Afghans, Persians, Arabs, even Europeans. Over time, the concept of marriage changed as did the rituals.
UP CM Yogi Adityanath’s closure of abattoirs, meat shops has left butchers without livelihood, animal rearers have been forced to end their business and consumers have been forced to reduce or stop eating meat. Despite an Allahabad high court order, most major UP cities do not have authorised state-run slaughterhouses.
India’s conservation laws, based on pseudoscience, have criminalised people’s defence against marauding wildlife. Democratically-constituted local bodies empowered to protect nature will be a more just way of nursing our heritage to a healthy state.
In 1978, at Alma-Ata (USSR), countries pledged to enhance public health infrastructure. However, they not only failed to do, they also systematically undermined it by extensively privatising health care. That is one reason why the capitalist states have not been able to handle the corona crisis.
People’s Initiative to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi on the 30th of January – for National Unity, Communal Harmony, Non-Violence & Peace.
In today’s climate of intolerance, the relevance of Gandhi’s last fast and his demands is ever increasing. Excerpts from Kumkum Sangari’s article, “A narrative of restoration: Gandhi’s last years and Nehruvian secularism”, first published in 2002 in the wake of the Gujarat riots.
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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