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Independent India’s first education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s birth anniversary on November 11 is being observed as National Education Day, in celebration of his glorious legacy as a freedom fighter, educationist, and founder and editor of several newspapers.
November 16 marks the 106th martyrdom day of one of the youngest heroes of the freedom movement, which right-wing forces have been demeaning these days.
The founding fathers of the US Constitution feared and hated the concept of democracy. They derisively referred to it as “tyranny of the majority.” The constitution that they wrote reflects this, and seeks to restrict and prohibit involvement of the people in key areas of decision making.
Moved by the death of Indra Kumar Meghwal at the hands of his teacher, a poet wields his pen and lashes at the age-old caste system that keeps many at the receiving end of injustice
India suffered not one partition but many. On the one hand India was partitioned into two nation states. But along with the country, two major regions – Punjab and Bengal, evolved through many centuries, were also partitioned – this partition of the regions was probably much more serious with extremely tragic consequences.
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.
There was nothing conventional about Gandhi, and the fundamental questions he raised will not be wished away by conventional wisdom. An excerpt from ‘Reading Gandhi in the Twenty-First Century’, by Niranjan Ramakrishnan.
Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia have suffered from a variety of U.S. interventions over many years. Proxy wars and unilateral coercive measures, sanctions, are the tools used to prevent these nations from finding a means of peacefully coexisting.
Like the Roma and Sinti of Europe, Indian nomadic groups were also criminalised. After 75 years, the government must recognise their economic and social rights.
Book Review: Ramin Jahanbegloo and Pooja Sharma, ‘Living in Truth: The Gandhian Paradigm’: The time has come to see Gandhi as primarily a political thinker, and to engage with him the way we would critically engage with a political philosopher.
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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