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He and his fellow soldiers will be always remembered for their courage and sacrifice in refusing to fire on peaceful protesters offering non-violent resistance. Thereby a new and glorious chapter was added and a new dimension was given to the history of non-violent struggles against injustice.
Gandhi, Chauri Chaura, and the entire context of the Non-Cooperation Movement, present important lessons for Indians. If incidents of Indians-against-Indians violence continue, our Swaraj, as the Mahatma had warned, will “stink in our nostrils”.
The response to tweets by Rihanna and Greta Thunberg reveals a deep national insecurity and anxiety about India’s place in the world.
On 30 January, we would like to remember a Gandhiji which the current establishment would rather forget, namely someone who was deeply committed to the ideal of ‘political freedom’ which was not just ‘freedom from the British’ but a commitment to fundamental values and principles.
With some 36 productions—feature films, telefilms, documentaries—Ray has traversed a greater range of subjects than any other Indian film-maker. Many believe the mantle of Tagore has fallen on Ray. Even by a conservative estimate, he is the best film-maker India has produced.
From the way Gandhi defended himself in the 1922 sedition case, if we have a sense of history and a sense of respect for Gandhi, sedition should never have continued as an offence in the statute books after India won independence.
Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus all formed the Indian National Army, and they all fought for India’s freedom – displaying Subhas Bose’s absolute commitment to the unity and equality of all Indians.
Remembering Deshbandhu: a leader with enormous mass appeal, a pragmatic and a tactful politician, a legendary legal practitioner, a constitutionalist, a poet, an editor and an ambassador for Hindu-Muslim unity.
Sugathakumari not only produced some of the most iconic works of Malayalam poetry during her illustrious poetic career spanning almost six decades, she was also a leading social activist.
The year 2020 has also been marked by the destruction of the democratic rights organizations of India, as part of a vicious plan of the BJP government to irreparably shrink the democratic space for a future that we can only tremble to think about.
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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