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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Jittery over the swelling tide of online dissent, the government issues new rules that give it overarching powers to control digital media under the guise of preventing misuse of freedom of speech.
Remembering Professor Mushirul Hasan, Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, today is also to mourn the demise of the hopelessly utopian idea of composite culture.
On March 19 ten years ago, the Obama administration launched air strikes over Libya under the banner of NATO, which culminated in the killing of Libya’s long-time ruler Muammar Qaddafi and destroyed the wealthiest, healthiest and happiest nation in Africa.
Every year, on the birth anniversary of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia (23 March), demands are made to the government for posthumous conferment of Bharat Ratna on Dr. Lohia. However, it would be an injustice to Lohia’s legacy if the government/ ruling class indeed conferred Bharat Ratna on Lohia.
On what would have been his 80th birthday, a reflection on the late Palestinian poet’s extraordinarily abundant, deeply humane and brilliantly kaleidoscopic work.
The suggestions from the GoM report hint at increased surveillance and targeting of writers and journalists who depart from the government’s narrative, the editors’ body said.
Japan is planning to host the Olympics, claiming that radiation leakages from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plants is under control. But recent studies contradict the country’s positive decontamination and human rights claims after 2011.
A reflection on the deeper dimensions of Dandi March, the significance of which endures beyond time and space.
The V Dem Institute’s report notes that much of the decline in democratic freedoms occurred after the BJP and Narendra Modi’s victory in 2014.
The new rules framed unfairly lump news sites with OTT platforms and social media and must be rolled back.
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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