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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
India suffered not one partition but many. On the one hand India was partitioned into two nation states. But along with the country, two major regions – Punjab and Bengal, evolved through many centuries, were also partitioned – this partition of the regions was probably much more serious with extremely tragic consequences.
On the role and contribution of India’s youngest martyr Baji Rout who was just twelve years old when he laid down his life for the freedom of our country.
In a letter to the Union Minister for Environment and Climate Change, the civil society organisation has objected to recent steps being taken to give permission for commercial cultivation of GM mustard, stating that the biosafety assessment of GM mustard has been ignored.
Giant retailers in the developed economies make huge fortunes in concert with smaller-scale textile and garment factories, the bulk of them in Asia and other parts of the global South. While this has brought luxury for a privileged few, it has plunged millions into a vast matrix of exploitation.
The 22 vows of Babasaheb can free the newly ordained Buddhists from the anti-human beliefs of Hinduism and bind them to the human beliefs of Buddhism. These vows are not anti-Hindu in any way but give guidelines for the followers of Buddhism which each religion gives.
This is a retrogressive draft Bill, which will boost the monopoly power of a handful of telecom companies over the internet and legalise the government’s 360-degree surveillance of citizens.
If Gandhi and Ambedkar are indispensable to political thought today, it is because both are deeply committed to the figure of the minor, and to an equality centred around this figure. This is why we must study the antagonism between them.
May 2000: There are four Gandhis who have survived Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s death. Fifty years after Gandhi’s (1861-1948) assassination, it may be useful to establish their identities.
Recently, PM Modi put the blame for delay in implementation of the Sardar Sarovar Project on “urban naxals and anti-development elements”. This is not merely wrong and unfair, but reflects regrettable ignorance of ground realities.
70 years ago the UK stepped up a brutal colonial intervention in Malaya, presenting it as a war against Chinese communism. British forces herded hundreds of thousands of people into fortified camps, heavily bombed rural areas and resorted to extensive propaganda to win the conflict.
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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