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‘Ignore the Spin, Incomes, Consumption and Private Investment Have Stagnated’: The FM’s budget speech reiterated Modi govt’s achievements over the past decade; facts have never come in the way of Modi’s penchant for weaving self-congratulatory narratives. Also: ‘The K is Indian GDP’s Reality: Why Deny?’
Abhishek Choudhary’s new biography of Atal Behari Vajpayee examines the life and legacy of India’s first BJP prime minister, puncturing misguided liberal nostalgia and the hero-worship of the Hindu Right.
‘Everything Wrong with NITI Aayog’s Claim of 24.8 Crore Emerging Out of Poverty in 9 Years’; ‘Niti Aayog “Poverty” Stats: Serious Theoretical, Methodological, Empirical Questions’; ‘Three Charts: What the Modi Government Wants Us to Forget Before the 2024 Lok Sabha Polls’; ‘Hunger, Undernutrition Stalking India; Placed Worse Than Least Developed Nations’.
Modi tried to force the Finance Commission to cut back on the amount of tax revenue meant for India’s states.
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.
With the railways reducing General and Sleeper coaches in favour of AC ones, passengers will have to continue travelling in jam-packed compartments, or shell out higher fares if they wish to travel by train. Also: ‘Smile, You’re With the PM and Your Train Isn’t on Time’.
This year, under Modi’s leadership, the RSS navigated the delicate balance between tradition and adaptation.
The attempt by neoliberal governance has been to steadily depoliticise farmers’ suicides and strip them of any deeper messaging.
Delivering the Smt Bansari Sheth Endowment Lecture, the judge noted that four “most disturbing” things have happened in the country this year itself. He also was severely critical of the Supreme Court’s recent judgement on the Centre’s J&K decision.
Unions also call for law to protect journalists from arbitrary arrests and malicious prosecution, emphasising that journalists should not be treated as terrorists. Also: ‘Assault on NewsClick Marks the Lowest Point for Media Freedom in India Since Emergency’.
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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