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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Nehru wrote to his Chief Ministers on the 1st and 15th of each month and he had written 400 letters from 1947 to 1963. Three letters from “Letters for A Nation: From Jawaharlal Nehru to His Chief Ministers (1947-1963)”, edited by Madhav Khosla.
‘Who Does June 4 Belong to?’; ‘A New Dawn’: With no one party with a clear majority, it means a return to the days of more parliamentary influence on governance; ‘Results That Give Hindutva a Jolt’; ‘Voters Force Narendra Modi to Become a Labharthi of his Allies’.
The idea of India will always exceed all that is said about it, or against it.
The Indian economy is in deep crisis. The actual growth rate of the economy is much less than is being projected by the Modi Government. The people are facing a colossal unemployment, poverty and hunger crisis. Therefore, the government needs to increase its spending on the people, by increasing the budget outlay. Has this happened in Budget 2024?
The author argues that the rise of Modi-led authoritarianism in India is an outcome of the failure of the neoliberal project to deliver anything substantial to the majority of the population in the last three decades.
A collective of citizens and organisations together released a “charge sheet” on February 9, 2024 against the Government of India showcasing how this regime, into its second term, has subverted parliamentary democracy.
The Union government that ran 906 central sector schemes in its last tenure underfunded 71.9% of them. On one out of every five schemes, the government spent less than half of what it promised in the budget.
The conflict of work and childcare for mothers compels them to remain out of the labour market. It is time for fresh dialogue on this.
‘How Did the Muslim Vote?’: Despite being the target of the Prime Minister’s public speeches and facing continuous discrimination, the Muslim voter has voted in support of saving the Constitution and India’s democracy. Also: ‘‘A Little Less Suffocating: Why Many Muslims View the Lok Sabha Verdict with Cautious Hope”.
The Niti Aayog in a press release earlier this year claimed near zero poverty for India by 2022-23, affecting only 5 per cent of the population. The hard data on nutritional intake show however that hunger has risen greatly over the last three decades.
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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