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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Do We Need a New Chernobyl?; ‘It’s Like the Embers in a Barbecue Pit.’ Nuclear Reactions are Smoldering Again at Chernobyl; 35 Years After Chernobyl’s Meltdown, the Fallout of Radiation Continues.
One’s birthday cannot be ‘happy’ in prison; however, in wishing you – we celebrate your life, your mission and your message and above all, those whom you have so closely identified with all these years; so “Birthday Greetings to you, dear Fr. Stan!”
Eight private jets – four from Mumbai, three from Delhi and one from Ahmedabad – carrying some of India’s super-rich left the country for the United Kingdom and landed at the Luton airport in London on Friday – the day travel restrictions to the UK kicked in.
While the public infrastructure in place under the PDS and NFSA has come to the rescue in this situation of dire need, data reveals that the stock of food grains distributed during the pandemic constituted a small proportion of the stocks available for distribution in the central pool.
Our leaders appear to have succeeded in polarising society to such an extent that their electoral victories are almost guaranteed. Then, why are they going with ever-increasing gusto for crimes that target Muslims?
In ‘Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth’, Audrey Truschke sifts popular imagination on the ruler’s personal and political life from historical realities.
For Fr Stan, the order of the judge rejecting his bail plea was indeed the ‘ides of March’; however, it is not a closed chapter, the struggle for justice and truth will continue relentlessly. One day with Fr Stan, we will certainly say we have overcome for ‘Satyameva Jayate!’
Our founding fathers and mothers were far-sighted in matters of socio-economic justice, dignity of the individual and personal liberty. Today, dissent and disagreement are slowly being turned into sedition and a national security issue. In good time, human rights may well become human frights.
India’s 96 million informal workers fight gender bias and pay gaps. An examination of the situation in the textiles and garments sector, where many women workers put in over 12 hours a day, six days a week, but do not have the negotiating power to demand better wages or working conditions.
An exploration of the reconstruction of Haiti after 2010, focussed mainly on the the destruction of peasant farming, to the benefit of western corporations and their allies in Haiti.
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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