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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Some commentators view the Indian government’s recent foreign policy stances as assertions of its independence. However, the reality of India’s economic and political power is quite different. This article examines recent developments, to see how far India has shed the vestiges of its colonial past.
The author discusses the background to the latest strikes – first Iran targeted the base of an armed-separatist group, the Jaish al-Adl, in Baluchistan; two days later, Pakistan unleashed a drone attack against Baluchi-militant ‘terrorist hideouts’ on the Iranian side of the border.
If as a global human community we allow the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States, it will be a world-historic blow to the freedom of thought, conscience, and expression. It will be a victory for secretive, abusive governments and corporate institutions around the world.
‘Genocide in Gaza’; ‘International Court of Justice Hears Devastating Presentation of Israeli Genocide in Gaza’; ‘Why We Have to Make the Jewish Ghetto Comparison’.
A long look at 2023 and how the courts let India down.
‘“That Infernal Infidel Wajid Ali Shah”: Sour Notes on the Confluence of Cultures’: Indians have celebrated the spirit and practice related to the confluence of cultures. And yet, a recent experience tells me we have managed to stray far enough. Also: ‘The Strength of India’s Religious Traditions are Spaces Where People from Different Religions Intermix’.
Art is a cultural weapon. It is a tool for educating, for inspiring change. It gives voice to the injustices of the past and present and gestures toward a more just future. The Israeli government seems to recognize this fact. In over two months of slaughter, Israeli forces have devastated Gaza’s cultural sector.
January 11 marks the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the prison component of the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Cuba. Guantánamo has been universally condemned by every human rights group in the world, as well as by the United Nations, and most countries in the world.
The dramatic events in Palestine starting on October 7 have taken many people by surprise. The reason is the tendency to pay close attention to political discourses and intelligence analyses of Israel and its supporters – while largely neglecting the Palestinian discourse.
‘Of Dignity and Solidarity’. Also: Poem – ‘Never Forget’.
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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