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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The Population Foundation of India (PFI) has said that the complete set of findings from the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) “busts the myth of population explosion” in India, since the total fertility rate (TFR) now stands below the replacement level.
Agriculture contributes to 15-20 percent or more of world greenhouse gas emissions. And yet talks about agriculture comprised less than 5 percent of all official negotiations and less than 10 percent of side events, favoring the less controversial topic of renewable energy.
The job of socialists is to engage with public policy from a class perspective, informed by a socialist understanding of contemporary capitalism—not to reform it, but to abolish it.
Decades of indifference to public investment led to the persistence of lead-tainted water which, in turn, forces citizens to rely on privatized bottled water as the only safe and potable option. Also: Environmental Impact of Bottled Water Up to 3,500 Times Greater than Tap Water.
On 7 November, during the COP26 Coalition People’s Summit, the jury of ‘The People’s Tribunal: People and Nature vs the UNFCCC’ delivered this verdict on its failure to address a range of issues.
Many of today’s aspiring political scientists use the course as a tool to crack the civil services code, thereby losing the loftier goals at the heart of the discipline.
The majority in India must talk about its insensitivity to the pain of those it considers ‘others’.
The entire exercise seems to be motivated by the desire to clean up the balance sheets of public sector banks so that these are dressed up for sale to private entities
Otro Beta is a cultural project that seeks to bring the Venezuelan barrio youth away from the dead-ends that capitalism imposes on them. It aims to incorporate them into the new horizons of personal and collective development that the Bolivarian Revolution has opened up.
The author, a professor of global religions at Moravian University, examines the concept of moral injury, why so many veterans of America’s twenty-first-century forever wars have suffered from it, and why, for some, suicide has been the only solution.
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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