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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In 1949, while in Lahore, the poet wrote ‘Avaaz-e-Adam’, in which ‘hum bhi dekhenge’ remains a memorable phrase… In memory of Sahir Ludhianvi, who passed away 40 years ago on October 25, 1980.
Jnanpith laureate Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri (widely known as Akkitham), who left this world on 15 October 2020, belonged to a tradition of great humanist-poets, leaving behind a splendid legacy in Malayalam literature.
John Lennon was not only a musical genius and pop cultural icon, but also a vocal peace protester and anti-war activist, and a high-profile example of the lengths to which the Deep State will go to persecute those who dare to challenge its authority.
In the year of the great composer’s 250th birthday, we can retune our ears to pick up the subversive and passionately democratic nature of his music.
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.”
The hundred days of light and hope that was Shaheen Bagh cannot be extinguished by official slander and police chargesheets.
The image of him as a trigger-happy young man was deliberately publicised by the colonial government, which many of us internalised and continue to romanticise.
What was missing in the old efforts to build a new socialist society was forgetting that along with building new material foundations, it is necessary to build new human beings; those early attempts tried to fly with things that only looked like wings.
Advertising is a constant feature of our everyday lives. As a result, we often ignore its real and unsavoury function: capitalist propaganda par excellence.
The historical record on U.S. human rights policies, both domestic and international, is one of hypocrisy, deceit, and denigration.
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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