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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Shakespeare work is usually depicted as apolitical, devoid of any radical or subversive messages. It is a mistaken belief; his plays reflect the ills of rising capitalism and emergence of the bourgeois individual: cutthroat and egotistical – this can be seen in characters from Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
In 1930, Tagore visited Albert Einstein at his home in Berlin. The two proceeded to have one of the most stimulating, intellectually riveting conversations in history, exploring the age-old friction between science and religion. An excerpt from one of their conversations.
Vivekananda was not a traditional Hindu monk but a modern ascetic with a scientific and materialist outlook. Unlike other saints, he did not offer prayers to the Almighty for his own salvation but sought salvation of the poor and the marginalised.
Experts point out that this was a disaster waiting to happen because the authorities ignored multiple warnings over decades about the way roads and hydropower projects were being built.
A number of State governments are announcing or implementing decisions to reverse their shift to the new pension scheme designed largely by the Centre. The Centre has launched a propaganda war to discredit this decision against the new scheme.
The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ seeks to bring home to us the loss we are experiencing, and recalls us to a moral and systemic commitment that our leaderships prior to the era in hand had forged and nursed. Also: ‘Puja Versus Tapasya’: Why Rahul Gandhi’s Formulation Has Meaning.
Taxing India’s 10 richest billionaires at only 5% can fetch the entire money needed to bring children back to school, says the report released at WEF Davos meet.
The civil rights group has issued a solidarity statement with the struggle of the people of Mali Parbat opposing Hindalco mining. It says in the statement that the hill, “rich with bauxite, sacred to local tribes in Koraput district of Odisha, is facing threat of destruction” from the mining giant.
Workers of the Indian Telecommunication Industries Ltd. (ITI) have been on a sit-in protest outside the factory premises in Dooravani Nagar, Bangalore, since 1 December 2021 against their arbitrary termination from work following the formation of a union and demanding their basic rights.
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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