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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Gandhi’s disapproval of ‘Hindu water’ and ‘Muslim water’ and superstitions and hypocrisy of sadhus on the occasion Kumbh Mela in 1915 offers lessons in the context of the 2025 Kumbh Mela. Also: Will the Ganga be able to heal or nourish anyone for very long after the Kumbh Mela?
The Central Ground Water Board’s latest report on groundwater quality in the country reveals widespread contamination, with nearly 20% of samples exceeding permissible pollutant limits. Major pollutants include nitrates, fluoride, arsenic and uranium.
Historically, stubble burning contributes only 6% to the pollution, yet the public is quick to make the farmers the scapegoats, and not the policymakers. Also: Urgent action is needed to tackle multiple sources of pollution, from vehicles to construction to stubble burning.
Fossil fuel pollution kills more people each year than HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria combined.
In 2014, the Indian government launched the latest in a long line of projects to clean the Ganga’s waters. Water expert Himanshu Thakkar says little has changed since previous projects to clean the Ganga in the 1980s, which also failed to meet their goals.
“The Fukushima Disaster, The Hidden Side of the Story,” is a just-released film documentary, a powerful, moving, information-full film that is superbly made. Directed and edited by Philippe Carillo, it is among the strongest ever made on the deadly dangers of nuclear technology.
Fossil fuel stakeholders have been seeking new revenue in the petrochemical industry in general, and plastics in particular.
The long-term suffering likely to come from the environmental damage we’re causing should impel us all to call for a major diplomatic push to end the nightmare in Ukraine now. After all, if the world’s great powers don’t pull together soon on climate action, we’re in trouble deep.
The mine would severely affect a vast area of Birbhum district. The top soil, which had taken lakhs of years to form, would be turned into a heap of wastes. The area would be turned into a desert. The fertility of the soil would be damaged. The diversity of terrestrial and aquatic life would suffer a huge loss.
Canada has become one of the biggest exporters of recyclable paper to India. An investigation by Radio-Canada’s Enquête shows that much of what is supposed to be paper actually contains tonnes of plastic bags, some of which litter the Indian landscape, and are often burned as a source of fuel.
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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