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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Dakshayani Velayudhan was the only dalit woman in the Indian Constituent Assembly. In this interview, her daughter and policy analyst, Meera Velayudhan remembers her mother and the varied ways in which she shaped the history of not just her community but also the nation.
A recent report on farmer suicides in Punjab reveals the circumstances which lead farmers and farm labourers to take their own lives, debunks popular myths regarding the same, and points to policy measures needed to tackle the problem.
The U.S. is a “highly unusual society, in many ways,” says Noam Chomsky in this interview about the economic and political organization of the U.S. polity and the shockingly reactionary rulings of the Supreme Court on guns and abortion.
Under capitalism, corporate dishonesty has become so commonplace that most of us take it for granted. In doing so, however, we’ve allowed ourselves to become numb to the breathtaking scale and bottomless arrogance of corporate deception.
Several industry leaders have offered jobs to Agniveers. The question is, how many ex-servicemen have they employed in the past in their respective corporate houses. The Modi govt. too has promised them jobs in govt departments – but it has not filled the posts reserved for them so far. Also: Farmers and workers join youth protesting Agnipath scheme.
The Dakshin Railway Employees Union (DREU) has said that the launch of Bharat Gaurav Trains is an ominous sign of total privatisation of the Railways in the years to come – as it will lead to a complete dry up of railway revenues.
History has shown that the only way to achieve democracy, dignity and freedom is through mass struggle and organising. The people of Swaziland and Morocco continue to fight.
A recent book released on the first death anniversary of Sunderlal Bahuguna, titled Sankalp ke Himalaya, has recalled several inspiring episodes of social and ecological movements in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.
The current crisis in Sri Lanka is not only a political crisis; it is also a structural breakdown of the way in which neoliberalism has sought to legitimise its own regime of accumulation. This presents an opportunity to propose radical solutions that could reconstruct the State on more egalitarian grounds.
The IT cell of a communal organization has been carrying out false propaganda about the role of Mahatma Gandhi regarding the hanging of the Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. The fact is, Gandhi made immense efforts to get their death sentence cancelled, but he was not successful.
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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