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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Sahgal is referring to the struggle for freedom under Mahatma Gandhi. He brought together people in a way that cut across religion, region, class, gender. Bringing together this rich diversity into a strong political unity that overthrew the British Empire was an extraordinary achievement.
Coercive measures to control population will have several adverse effects. Amartya Sen, the renowned economist, recently talked about population well-being and stated that cooperation can provide something that coercion can’t provide.
We have to organize a movement against the corporate friendly BJP Govt which is handing over our agriculture, coal, education, health, railways and many other sectors to Indian and foreign corporates in the name developing India.
Nirvair Malhi, a 19-year-old high school graduate from Jalandhar, came to the Tikri border with the intention of visiting the protest for exactly a day. He has ended up staying there for the last seven months.
A critical look at a report currently being considered by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education pertaining to school history books. It unpacks the misplaced bases of comparison used in the report, and also examines the implications of its recommendations to erase or simplify histories of caste and gender.
Evidence suggests that the world’s most sophisticated commercially available spyware has been misused and greater accountability and oversight is needed. Also – Edward Snowden Calls for a Global Moratorium on Spyware Trade.
Retail prices of petrol and diesel have gone up even as global crude prices dampened, and the dollar-rupee exchange rate remained relatively stable. All told, more than half the price consumers pay per litre of fuel goes to tax, of which the lion’s share goes to the central government.
Assam’s new Cattle Preservation Bill violates Article 48 of the Constitution and will give a fillip to vigilantism.
Filling up these posts itself would contribute to reducing the raging joblessness that has haunted India in the past several years, but the government does not seem to care.
His death is institutional murder by the Indian criminal justice system.
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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