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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The World Health Organization recently released a report on global excess deaths associated with COVID-19 for the period from January 2020 to December 2021; the report says that India’s COVID-19 death toll is almost 10 times its official tally – 4.7 million.
In March, while the Bharatiya Janata Party in Haryana was promoting The Kashmir Files, Kashmiri Pandits in the state were telling us that the government of Manohar Lal Khattar had ignored their pleas for financial assistance in the eight years since they came to power, amid worsening economic woes.
Multilateral and bilateral institutions as well private philanthropy have had an outsized role in shaping the global health policy agenda. This piece traces the changes globalization has brought to global health governance.
S. Anand, the founder of publishing house Navayana, is trying to break away from the body of Hindustani bandishes that remain stuck in antiquity.
The 1959 Pakistani classic was based on the Bengali novel ‘Padma Nadir Majhi’ by Manik Bandopadhyay but reinvents the story for its medium and altered geopolitical situation, with Faiz Ahmed Faiz writing the story and lyrics.
The volume of pesticide use and exposure is occurring on a scale that is without precedent and world-historical in nature. Agrichemicals are now pervasive as they cycle through bodies and environments. The herbicide glyphosate has been a major factor in driving this increase in use.
Letter to the Supreme Court explaining the reasons for resigning as chairman and member of the High Powered Committee for the Char Dham Pariyojana.
An excerpt from ‘Mahabharata: The Epic and the Nation’ by G.N. Devy.
The Economic Survey, in keeping with the trend in recent years, paints a rosy picture of the economy, while sidestepping issues that are of concern to most Indians, still suffering in the wake of the pandemic. In keeping with the recent trend, it showers more management-style jargon.
They are workers but without any formal “employment”. They might sport Zomato or Swiggy t-shirts and caps. But they are not their workers. Nor are these firms their employers. They have a new name—they are called gig workers. They work and live under precarious conditions.
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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