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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
This is a largely informal industry, where the finest, most brilliant and sensitive of the nation’s craftspeople work, in dilapidated machines and subhuman conditions, celebrating centuries of inherited, meticulous and painstaking art forms, etched in archival memory. It is in deep crisis …
Thirteen opposition leaders said, “We reiterate our commitment to combat and confront the poisonous ideologies which are attempting to entrench divisiveness in our society”; Also: “Apocalypse of Hatred, Bigotry, Intolerance, Untruth Engulfing Country: Sonia Gandhi.”
The then PM Nehru and the then FM Deshmukh, whose foresight and vision had led to the creation of a unique institution of the LIC as a social security provider for the poor, would never have imagined even remotely that their successors six decades later would wantonly dismantle it …
The reasons for PM Khan’s political downfall are not entirely clear. His economic policies were a mixed bag at best, but he deserves credit for one thing: he’d taken a bold stand against international investment agreements that give transnational corporations excessive power over national governments.
A builder devoted to his alma mater, Shifa-ur-Rehman is one of the longest incarcerated accused in the Delhi riots conspiracy case. As we look back at the legal trajectory of his case, Rehman spoke to us from Tihar jail about the India he was born into, Islamophobia today, and the biased application of stringent laws.
Italy’s dictator received glowing plaudits from high-ranking British and American statesmen, such as Winston Churchill, Henry Stimson and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In recent times, there has been a distressing tendency on the part of the Centre to intrude unduly in areas that legitimately belong to the States, which has the effect of eroding the political identity of the State. These are disturbing trends that do not augur well for the well being of the nation.
Current foodgrain stocks are twice the statutory limit, procurement is at an all-time high, as is output – yet the Modi government is silent on extending the free ration scheme.
Unfortunately for Adityanath and Narendra Modi, the ‘80-20’ statement not only exposes the central role communal hatred plays for the BJP in elections but the actual election result has thrown up contrarian arithmetic.
Governments of every political dispensation have sought to hollow out India’s rural employment guarantee scheme. Only a mass movement that keeps the vulnerable at its centre can make the MGNREGA what it is supposed to be.
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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