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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
‘The RSS Sends a Message’: Sangh Parivar’s comments on party strategy and leadership qualities hint at a change in power balance within the BJP and in its equation with the RSS. Also: ‘The RSS Supremo’s Outbursts, a Denial By “Sources” and the History’.
The rise in social mobility among Dalits and disenchantment with the status quo has led to a shift in Dalit politics. Opposition parties have been the beneficiaries of Mayawati’s marginalisation. Contrary to popular belief, Dalit consciousness is robust, radical, and committed to social justice values.
The 15th of June marked the beginning of an indefinite fast by Medha Patkar, for justice in the Narmada valley. The demands from this fast include rehabilitation of all the remaining project affected as per the laws, policies, and Supreme Court orders.
Beginning in the mid-1980s, the prevailing belief among Indian and international observers was that the authoritarian Chinese regime would mismanage its economy, while democratic India would emerge as the bigger and more developed of the two. Instead, India is now paying the price for underinvesting in its human capital.
The idea of India will always exceed all that is said about it, or against it.
How Hate Has Been Normalised, Behaviourally and Institutionally, in Modi’s India; Modi’s Hypocritical Doublespeak About Religion and the Constitution; At Rae Bareli, a Picture of Contrasts in Amit Shah and Priyanka Gandhi.
The tendency of the human mind, whether fighting for personal territory or fighting for justice, is to create an enemy: self vs the other, us vs them, good vs evil. In our times, which seem more divided than ever, Kabir invites us to look beyond easy binaries.
The constitution that the people of India gave to themselves was a product of mass struggle, political compromises, idealism and commitment to every citizen.
‘The Chief Justice and the Father of the Nation’: What would Gandhi have thought of a serving chief justice making public visits to temples and giving interviews about it? Also: ‘Why CJI Chandrachud’s Statement on the “Saffron Dhwaja as a Unifying Symbol” Raises Red Flags’; and: ‘Must Justice Have a Colour?’.
Remembering Madhu Dandavate, one of the finest socialists of India, whose birth centenary falls this month. He was born on January 21, 1924.
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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