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Menstruation remains a grave concern in India, especially in rural areas. The stigma attached to it has only witnessed a rampant increase. Many women are not even aware of the dreadful consequences of not maintaining hygiene during that time of the month.
Book Review. When you retrace Gandhi’s steps to Dandi you get to understand what ‘vikas’ means and what it does not mean for Gujarat and for all of India today. A most unusual book about a most unusual journey.
In 2002, there must have been ministers that thought K. Subrahmanyam – who was well over 70 at the time – had been ‘vicious’ in calling a democratically chosen leader an ‘asura’. Mercifully, none of them attacked him for being old.
Article in memory of Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), who was murdered 27 years ago by the military dictatorship in Nigeria in complicity with Shell oil company.
The urgency to address the relation between the militarized-capitalist-supremacist mindset and the living body of the earth looms larger all the time. The latter includes you and me, our beloved human families, friends, communities, and peoples, and also our non-human kith and kin.
Neither is India a superpower economically or militarily nor is it on the road to becoming one against whom ‘conspiracies’ are hatched to destabilise it.
National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), Gujarat, in a statement, has called the recent suicide of Darshan Solanki, a Dalit student of IIT, Bombay, as another “institutional murder” resulting from “crass caste discrimination” prevailing in India’s elite educational institutes.
Violence on this scale has to be treated as a social and not an individual phenomenon. The society has itself become toxic and hazardous.
Thoughts on the Mahatma’s 75th death anniversary.
The tide of communalism that was threatening to submerge the nation was pushed back with a Herculean effort on the part of India’s national leadership. For almost a decade, communal forces remained on the back-foot. They made a poor showing even in the 1957 elections.
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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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