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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The Modi government’s publicity blitzkrieg around the 75th anniversary of independence masks a steadily worsening hunger and livelihood crisis. Yet, the government is perversely placing fresh hurdles before India’s severely malnourished children and the rations that are their lifeline.
Gandhians are facing an unprecedented challenge today. Their world-view, icons, agenda of nation-building, institutional set-up and campaigns and programs are being challenged from all sides by a Hindu-centric political force.
Gujarat’s Dalit rights leader Martin Macwan announces plan to begin a yatra to Delhi starting August 1 and hand over a huge 1,000 kg brass coin to the President for placing in the Parliament building as a reminder that even 75 years of independence India is not untouchability free.
The way they have brought out the heavy artillery to keep Zubair behind bars tells us something ― that for this regime and its supporting ecosystem, he really matters.
It was a sad day for the Indian Republic as His Highness the President of India, Guardian of democratic-secular Indian Republic, not only glorified but also idolized Gita Press which publishes literature that propagates Sati and beating of women.
The IT cell of a communal organization has been carrying out false propaganda about the role of Mahatma Gandhi regarding the hanging of the Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. The fact is, Gandhi made immense efforts to get their death sentence cancelled, but he was not successful.
A new report by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister throws up sobering figures on the inequity levels in India.
When used in the diaspora, ‘Kala Pani’ refers to the large-scale migration out of India in the 1830s when hundreds of thousands of Indians left the subcontinent to work in the sugar colonies as indentured labourers, or ‘bound coolies’.
An onslaught on a community often takes the form of intense loathing of the language it communicates in. Urdu is an example of that.
Bhabani, like so many other women, never received the honours and recognition she truly deserved. In the struggle for India’s freedom, all of them fought and acquitted themselves as honourably as anyone else. But they were women. In societies awash in prejudices and stereotypes against women, their role was seldom valued.
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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