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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In the name of economic reforms, the government is promoting corporate interests: the farm laws are meant to benefit large agribusiness corporations; 100% FDI in food retail will enable companies such as Amazon to enter food retail, and destroy small and medium retail traders.
We feminists of the 1960s-70s thought we might have won some of the battles against Patriarchy. However Patriarchy, in spite of all the movements, campaigns, and struggles, is not dead yet. The problems come from many directions, but they circle back to age-old conditions.
The RSS chief said in a recent speech that dialogue is the way out of Hindu-Muslim discord. Can there be any such dialogue considering his own organisation fans this disharmony?
The recent death of Mangboilal Lhouvum, a daily wager, in Manipur, has yet again raised outcry against the AFSPA. It is therefore pertinent to re-visit the circumstances under which AFSPA is invoked and used, and the role and responsibility of state and central govts and the Armed Forces.
We ought to focus on fixing our own problems rather than investing our scarce resources in a spectacle that costs us more than we can afford to give. Also – ‘Overt Sexualization’: Why Olympic Women Athletes Ran into Uniform Trouble Before the Games.
When I proclaim a belief in democracy, I mean the right to truly participate in the creation of our world. If it weren’t for democracy, we could easily be an undivided nation — united, with a shrug, in our acceptance of slavery, or at least in the necessity of whites-only drinking fountains.
The draft Bill will impact most adversely women across communities and classes, depriving them of their rights and rendering them even more vulnerable to ill health, social stigma and violence.
While a handful of companies control almost everything the Western world consumes in regard to media, a report by the Swiss Propaganda Research center says that all these media companies are tied to a single organization—the Council on Foreign Relations.
José Pedro Castillo, a 51-year-old teacher of a rural school, assumed the charge of the presidency of Peru on July 28. This is the first time that Peru will be ruled by a peasant, a person who belongs to a sector that has been oppressed for so many centuries.
A critical look at a report currently being considered by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education pertaining to school history books. It unpacks the misplaced bases of comparison used in the report, and also examines the implications of its recommendations to erase or simplify histories of caste and gender.
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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