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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Gandhi as a leader of people has few peers in our time. In a timeless perspective, he belongs together with Gautama Buddha and Jesus Christ. His all-embracing compassion was, surely, an aspect of Gandhi’s many-sided Truth.
One of the biggest announcements made by FM Nirmala Sitharaman in her 2024 budget speech relates to employment generation. We analyse the PM’s employment package in this article.
160 artists and scholars have issued an open letter seeking the release of Umar Khalid, a student activist and former research scholar at the JNU. Also: Adivasi and Dalit communities of Kashipur and Thuamal Rampur blocks in Odisha protest against the proposed bauxite mining project of Vedanta Ltd.
For six decades, “MT” created characters and crises that became part of the psyche of the average Malayali reader and Kerala’s literary cognoscenti.
The Song of India is its Constitution. Its melody is Democracy. The lyrics of the song are about Justice, Liberty, and Equality for all its diverse people. Fraternity among all the people of this proud nation provides the harmony.
Conservative attitudes, poor awareness and misconceptions are major hurdles in getting the reproductive health procedure which is perfectly legal.
‘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.
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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