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The Delhi police’s prosecutions of the anti-CAA protestors reminds of the British days; and, an Amnesty International report on the riots accuses Delhi police of violence, serious rights violations.
Justice Joseph says the case involves constitutional issues and should be heard by at least a five judge bench; Justice Lokur says that in the USA, the President himself has often criticised the Supreme Court, but it has not destabilised constitutional democracy.
By evoking Gandhi in the Supreme Court’s contempt proceedings, the lawyer has contextualised the need to ‘test’ all laws to see if they further the quest for justice instead of simply being etched in stone.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, who was instrumental in making it the anthem of the INA, particularly appreciated its pan-India and secular reach.
On 14 August, 1945, I was a little kid celebrating the end of World War II. Little did we know that our government was building the highway into two calamitous wars and a future of unending war.
As feminists committed to democratic values, we ask, ‘where is the real independence, the real freedom for citizens to think, speak, write, educate, agitate, organize, resist, dissent or question?’
On National Handloom Day, activists across India are demanding a reconstitution of the two boards, both of which acted as interfaces between craftspersons and the state.
Today’s history might bear witness to the phenomenon of victor’s justice, but there are other strands of history that tell us that no one wins in the end.
It reveals that neoliberal capital is riding piggyback on the Hindu Rashtra forces in order to loot India’s human resources.
August 1 was the 100th birth anniversay of this leading Dalit writer and proletarian thinker of Maharashtra.
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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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