JANASWARTH? Newspaper? Why another newspaper? There is a logic behind the query. It’s natural also. We venture our rationale as crisply and modestly as we can. Our new venture is not absolutely novel. We seek to revive a monthly magazine,Janaswartha (Public Interest). At the same time our objective is to restructure it from what was once a periodical devoted to news and views on human rights and related issues. Janaswartha had an identity among the functionaries in the civil society movement for its brevity and reader-friendliness. Nonetheless, its publication was suspended due to lack of manpower in the main. The editor and editorial functionaries of Janaswartha and we, a group of journalists and friends whose commitment is to unfettered democracy and al that is humane agreed to extend the periphery of Janaswartha from public interest to people’s or human interest. To put it briefly and frankly, our project is for setting up a weekly newspaper whose motto is to dish out fearless and factual news items, commentaries and features. We will not leave any unnerve unstrained to take up cudgels for the common people, their weal and woes. We shall do our best to carry news and comments, as insulated from bias as we can. Rather we shall keep vigil against the infection of inspired journalism. Even then, if there are slippages, we can assure you it may happen inadvertently and in such cases, we shall make amends through letters to the Editor from conscientious readers. We will not encourage negative and tendentious news items or analyses. We shall have malice to none, least of all to any party or group save communal and terrorist groups or parties. We fervently request readers to critically judge our editorial statement which is not at all a dogma. On the contrary, we shall humbly listen to criticism from our well-wishers and friends. Criticism, Croce defined, is the ‘art of teaching to read’. Needless to say, our set of editorial policies is not rigid. We want it to be dynamic and subject to periodic revision. Last, but not the least, we uphold the principle of freedom to dissenters, handed down by Voltaire, Marx, Rabindranath Tagore and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Posted on: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 03:15:38 +0000
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