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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
As sea levels rise, low-lying agricultural fields across the coast of Ratnagiri are increasingly being inundated with saltwater, making way for saline tolerant species like mangroves but at the cost of local livelihood.
The tenacity and initiative exhibited by the residents of Pissurlem and Shirgao serve as inspirational examples for other communities affected by mining. Villagers can reclaim their lands, restore their environment, and regain self-sufficiency, if they stand together and commit to change.
Around the world, significant issues are negatively impacting water security. While the situation appears dire, cooperation initiatives show some signs of relief.
The focus of the railways on ‘improving passenger experience and comfort’ which is actually a push towards elitisation of railways, along with an obsession with speed, is taking place at the cost of neglecting passenger safety – and it is this that has led to the Balasore train tragedy.
PUCL strongly condemns the brutal manner by which the Delhi Police forcibly arrested the women wrestlers on 28 May 2023; Also: “Attack on Protesting Wrestlers: Whither PM’s Beti Bachao Slogan?, Ask 1500+ Citizens”
At the start of May 2023, the central government released yet another statement exuding optimism about the progress of India’s Goods and Services Tax regime, based on the previous month’s collections. An analysis of India’s GST performance.
The shock over the crushing defeat was writ large on the faces of the US and Ukrainian presidents as they faced the media at Hiroshima a few hours after the Kremlin statement appeared transmitting President Putin’s greetings to the Russian forces for the victory in Bakhmut, Ukraine.
Half a century after Vijay Tendulkar’s controversial play about the jogtin practice, the town will be known for something besides the Yellamma temple.
The ability to make and exercise decisions about one’s body, sexuality and reproduction is at the core of gender, economic and social justice. Human rights bodies worldwide recognise that access to safe abortion is essential healthcare and a critical aspect of fundamental human rights.
What is the price of ‘forbidden’ love – opposition from families, harassment, social ostracisation?
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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