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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In the wake of the Modi government forming a commission to reevaluate reservations for Dalits, Ambedkarite intellectuals are debating whether Muslim and Christian Dalits should be included in the Scheduled Caste list.
Four billion people — almost two thirds of the world’s population — experience severe water scarcity for at least one month each year.
The Supreme Court order reaffirming safe and legal termination of pregnancy is welcome. The question is, whether the new judicial interpretation will ensure abortion rights by making it obligatory on the state to address the structural barriers in abortion-care services.
Two recent shocking revelations: Vedanta-Foxconn cornering a subsidy of Rs 76,000 crore to build chips; and a wrong Hyundai group getting a huge subsidy to make EV batteries. The partisan debate over “freebies” sparked by PM Modi himself now stands exposed more than ever, in multiple ways.
In a letter to the Union Minister for Environment and Climate Change, the civil society organisation has objected to recent steps being taken to give permission for commercial cultivation of GM mustard, stating that the biosafety assessment of GM mustard has been ignored.
Thousands of families have occupied pavements in the city for decades and continue to do so, despite knowing that their shelters can torn down any day.
Seventeen years after Indians won the Right to Information, the backlog of pending RTI appeals continues to grow in the face of understaffed and defunct information commissions, and attacks on RTI activists are becoming more brutal.
Across India, over 36,480 houses were demolished, and 207,106 people were forcibly evicted by central and state governments in 2021, according to a new report by the Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN). Also: How Demolitions are Deepening the Despair of India’s Poor.
Over the last year, 1,710 government-run primary schools have been shut down in Assam, in the name of merger with nearby schools. Also: ‘Over-Crowded’ Classrooms, Girls Dropping Out: Delhi Govt Comes Under Fire Over Merger of Schools.
Fascism is again ascendant. The far-right politician Giorgia Meloni is expected to become Italy’s prime minister after elections on Sunday. Extremism is the political cost of pronounced social inequality and political stagnation. Demagogues, who promise moral and economic renewal, vengeance against phantom enemies and a return to lost glory, rise out of the morass.
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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