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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi is known for his supreme sacrifice in trying to stop communal violence in Kanpur in 1931. Another lesser known duo from Ahmedabad, who displayed similar idealism and laid down their lives on 1 July, 1946, were Vasant Rao Hegiste and Rajab Ali Lakhani.
The English translation of Tho Paramasivan’s ‘Ariyappadatha Tamilakam’ offers just enough salt to taste the richness of Tamil.
In August 1933, Nehru wrote a series of articles published in a pamphlet titled “Whither India?” As our country is still struggling with poverty, inequality of income and agrarian distress, this pamphlet remains as relevant today as it was 87 years ago when it was published.
Due to the decreasing facilities in the relief camps, people deprived of their food and all household facilities are returning to their disaster-hit homes.
The Vaikom Satyagraha in 1924-25 marked a significant milestone in the history of India’s struggle against caste discrimination. While the movement has paved the way for the abolishment of caste-based restrictions in temples, the fight against caste discrimination is far from over.
Bhaskar Save died on 24 October 2015 at age 93. Emphasising self-reliance at the farm/village level, Save was regarded as the ‘Gandhi of natural farming’. In 2006 he published an open letter on the disastrous effects of green revolution for India – socially, economically and ecologically. We reproduce this letter here.
The BJP’s defeat has proved that Modi can be beaten if influential regional leaders espouse fundamental issues of people.
The decision to drop the Gandhi assassination from the NCERT’s history textbook just cannot extinguish the Mahatma’s memory.
The new ‘edition’ of textbooks released by the NCERT has deleted chapters on Mughal history and this raised a storm. History does not exist for the liking and disliking of individuals, it just is. It exists for us to learn from. If it offends someone, even better. Because then one is less likely to repeat it.
The Congress leader apparently trespassed by making an unannounced visit. This incident prompts us to ask if university authorities think only one voice is allowed in educational institutes.
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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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