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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Since my retirement in 1993 I have been living in the village of Bhaimala in Raigad District, and greening the land. That has made me understand the harsh realities of farming and led me to support the issues our farmers are today struggling to highlight.
Key provisions of the Modi Government’s farm bills, such as ending government procurement and winding up the FCI, were in fact spelled out in a World Bank document of August 1991.
If you are depressed, dismayed and have lost all hope then join the farmers’ protests. Also: Interviews with farmers protesting against new farm laws across India.
By cancelling the winter session of the Parliament, the Modi government has yet again undercut the legislature and the deliberative process of law-making.
A country that ranks 94 among 107 countries in the Global Hunger Index can’t be said to be self-sufficient in foodgrains. The surplus stocks are due to shortage of purchasing power in peoples’ hands.
The year 2020 has also been marked by the destruction of the democratic rights organizations of India, as part of a vicious plan of the BJP government to irreparably shrink the democratic space for a future that we can only tremble to think about.
In works like ‘Home and the World’, ‘Gora’ and ‘Where the mind is without fear’, the Nobel Laureate demonstrated his opposition to aggressive nationalism.
On the former IPS officer’s 57th birthday, his children Aakashi and Shantanu Bhatt ask that people of India rise and be “the citizens, the nation that our father believes exists”. They then write an emotional personal letter addressed to their father.
The unprecedented unity among peasant organisations is not a sudden development. It has been built over several struggles, which have expanded the base of the peasant movement and snowballed into the massive protests against the new farm laws.
On his birth anniversary, which is celebrated as National Unity Day, we must remember the ethos of equality and secularism that Sardar Patel communicated through his actions.
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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