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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In upholding the removal of J&K’s special status and its downgrading, the SC has imperilled the rights of States and weakened the limits on the Union’s power; Also: ‘The Last Pillar of Indian Democracy Has Fallen’; and: ‘The Supreme Court’s Article 370 Judgment Is Injustice Writ Large’.
December 6, Ambedkar Smriti Din, is significant in Indian history for one more reason – it was on this day in 1992 that the Babri Masjid was demolished. Former president Dr K.R. Narayanan has described this as the greatest tragedy India faced after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
‘Coerced Gram Sabhas in Sijimali: A Grave Travesty of Justice’; Also: ‘Stop Conducting Fake Gram Sabhas at Gunpoint in Rayagada, Odisha’
A complex caste history makes many Marathas reluctant to embrace the ‘socially inferior’ Kunbi identity – even if that can give them access to quotas.
The Harshad Mehta scam served as a stark warning against the perils of unregulated capitalism, but its message was overshadowed by the narrative of economic liberalisation. Post-liberalisation, India witnessed large-scale pilfering from state-owned banks, further eroding public trust in financial institutions.
Saturday marked 39 years of the horror when methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Indian subsidiary of the now-defunct American firm Union Carbide Corporation killing thousands.
Despite the successful rescue operation of 41 miners trapped in the Silkyara tunnel collapse, it is essential to understand the problems with the larger Char Dham project, to prevent similar disasters in the future.
The architect of the Indian constitution had to wait for 75 years after independence for a statue to be erected in his honour. All this while, a taller statue of Manu – whose teachings are against the basic values of the constitution – was unveiled on the premises of the Jaipur bench of the Rajasthan high court way back in 1989.
‘The Supreme Court Never Fails to Disappoint’: For all its comments favouring the petitioners, it does not go against the government in its orders. ‘SC “Appears to Foster” Culture of Secrecy, Does Not Seek Electoral Bond Details from SBI’; ‘Decaying Institutions and Diminishing Democracy of the Indian Republic’.
Historically, stubble burning contributes only 6% to the pollution, yet the public is quick to make the farmers the scapegoats, and not the policymakers. Also: Urgent action is needed to tackle multiple sources of pollution, from vehicles to construction to stubble burning.
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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