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The former civil servants, in an open letter to President Droupadi Murmu, said the Union government is making “noticeable attempts” to pressure officers to “show exclusive loyalty to the Union.
It must be stressed that none of Pakistan’s political outfits, let alone its military, aims for even a modest change in social relations. They’re not in the business of creating a new society. When people take to the streets to demand one, their only response is repression.
Various arms of the state, including Indian embassies and Raj Bhavans, were deployed to turn the 100th episode of Narendra Modi’s radio show into an occasion for competitive sycophancy.
The ruling elite of Pakistan has miserably failed in solving the basic problems of the masses like free education, health care and employment. An alternative pro-people political and economic agenda is needed.
“Parenting in an Age of Narratives Over Facts”: As hate and toxicity swirl in our midst, one realises how careful, really careful, we need to be with our own kids. Also: “Can WHO’s ‘Life Skills’ Counter the Effects of Bigotry on Schoolchildren?”
Bhaskar Save died on 24 October 2015 at age 93. Emphasising self-reliance at the farm/village level, Save was regarded as the ‘Gandhi of natural farming’. In 2006 he published an open letter on the disastrous effects of green revolution for India – socially, economically and ecologically. We reproduce this letter here.
No naked human body can ever match the obscenity of the costume with which the minions of the Ministry of Culture have draped the Mohenjodaro Dancing Girl. How dare they shame the bodies of real women in this way?
The BJP’s defeat has proved that Modi can be beaten if influential regional leaders espouse fundamental issues of people.
“Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity,” writes Carson.
Despite championing communal, caste and class harmony all his life, Tagore in some of his early work did glorify Maratha, Sikh and Rajput valour against Mughals. These have become favourites of the Hindutva forces.
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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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