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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
“I belong to a generation that is fortunate enough to have met many men and women who fought in the Indian freedom movement. The one who left the deepest impression on me is Lakshmi Sahgal. She lived in the present and planned for struggles in the future,” says the author.
Unlike Europe, the speakers of hundreds of different languages in India agreed to belong to a single nation because the Constitution promised them freedom of expression, making it mandatory on the state to encourage languages ‘without harming other languages’.
More than 1,200 demonstrations sponsored by over 400 activists’ groups took place on March 5 in all 50 states of the USA to protest Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s dismantling of the government that is sacrificing the needs of working families to the greed of right-wing oligarchs.
The mind-boggling concessions given to the super-rich have led to a massive increase in their wealth. In October 2024, Forbes’ reported that the total net worth of India’s 100 wealthiest tycoons has tripled in the last decade and their wealth had crossed $1 trillion.
Can’t the Government of India increase its social sector expenditures and provide free, good quality education to all our children, make available affordable health care to all our people, guarantee nutrition and care to all our pregnant women and children, guarantee a decent pension to all citizens above the age of 60 years … Of course, it can.
A Rs.1,530 crore loss from mispriced derivatives and delayed disclosures raises concerns about weak oversight and risky strategies in private banking.
In Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party government’s shift from ally to adversary in the farmers’ struggle reflects deeper faultlines in India’s agrarian policy and political landscape. India’s agrarian distress is unresolved even though the performance of the agriculture sector has been buoyant.
The Bill sidesteps constitutional guarantees to sanction state intervention into the religious affairs of a community, barely concealing the intent to dispossess.
‘Why Karat Lets Modi-RSS Off the Fascism Hook?’; and: ‘Fascism or Neo-Fascism: Whatever You Call it, Fight It!’.
‘A Lunch on Eid’; ‘In Pain Yet Unbroken: Eid at Sambhal’; and: ‘An Iftar at Hazrat Nizamuddin’s Dargah, a Date with History’.
Coal mining has uprooted many indigenous communities, forcing them to leave their ancestral lands, even as migrants move to the state for livelihood opportunities created by the mining industry.
The ASHAs of Kerala receive a meagre honorarium though they play an indispensable role in the State’s healthcare. They are seen as ‘volunteers’ and the Centre refuses to classify them as ‘workers’, but the State government has failed to meet their immediate demands for fair pay and social security.
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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