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Ram Madhav of RSS stated that if they are called Adivasis, then it will mean that others have come from outside. According to the ideology of Madhav and his organization, we (Hindus) are all original inhabitants of India. Presentation of this narrative has deeper political implications.
There is an important problem with the claim that higher GDP growth itself leads to greater welfare for the people even if the tax-GDP ratio is small. The experience all over the world shows that building a welfare state requires a huge increase in fiscal effort.
It will result in devastating ecological changes and endanger the island’s unique flora and fauna.
Jawaharlal Nehru was a leader in the long anti-colonial struggle to free his own land and to inspire a fighting will in other lands under bondage. He lived to see victory and to move then to another epochal confrontation—the fight for peace after the Second World War.
Apart from the warmth with which Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra has been received in the south of the country, Mallikarjun Kharge’s election as Congress president also opens the way for more equitable alliances with other opposition parties.
Gandhi succeeded in uniting all people of all religions. This was because he saw religion as morality, as values. He learnt from all religions. One of his core beliefs was from Jesus Christ: the doctrine of love; love not only for your neighbour but also for your enemy.
Written with hope for a new tomorrow in Indian politics, dated September 26, 2022 when the Bharat Jodo Yatra began.
India today, is enveloped in darkness! As the nation embroils itself from one issue to another, the burden is felt by the ordinary citizen, as never before and in more ways than one. In these dark times, the people of India cry out in one voice, from the depths of their being “Let there be Light”!
Rishi Sunak has become the PM of UK and India’s ‘bhaktmandali’ is celebrating. Celebrating those who had nothing to do with India except some relations hundreds years back is nothing but pure hypocrisy of those who do not acknowledge the contributions of minorities in our nation building.
On the role and contribution of India’s youngest martyr Baji Rout who was just twelve years old when he laid down his life for the freedom of our country.
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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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