King Amanullah Khan
By Justice Markandey Katju Afghanistan today is a war ravaged country, with most of its people living in abject poverty. The war between the Americans and the Taliban has been going on there for 20…
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Unless we end inequities, we will fail to achieve Health For All
Special article for World Health Day “Everyone is trying to apply the human rights lens. But unfortunately, on key matters of equity, a lot of many communities right now are in the rear-view mirror and…
Mukhtar Ansari belonged to a highly respected and well off family, but…
Mukhtar Ansari I read today on the Internet that the gangster Mukhtar Ansari has been shifted from a jail in Punjab to one in Banda, UP. This reminds me of a story about him. Mukhtar…
Is Pakistan part of Arab culture or Indian culture ?
By Justice Markandey Katju Sulman Ali’s article ‘New wave of Arabisation‘ published in nayadaur.tv poses the question : Is Pakistan part of Arab culture or Indian culture ? I submit it is part of Indian…
Top 10 headlines this night: PM reviews COVID-19 Pandemic situation
PM reviews COVID-19 Pandemic situation and Vaccination Program in India Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today chaired a high-level meeting to review the COVID-19 Pandemic situation and vaccination program in the country. The Prime Minister…
PPFA demands immediate release of Ram Kumar
Guwahati, 4th April: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), while expressing relief at the release of Assamese engineer Pranab Kumar Gogoi after three months of abduction, voices serious concern over the fate of Ram Kumar, who…
Jungle raj in Bihar : Why media silent on Madhubani massacre on Holi Day
Jungle raj in Bihar news: Why media silent on Madhubani massacre on Holi Day More than 40 dead, 38 others injured across Bihar during Holi Over 40 people killed in Bihar during Holi but not…
Salt substitution is effective to reduce blood pressure in rural India: Study
A new study “Effects of reduced-sodium added-potassium salt substitute on blood pressure in rural Indian hypertensive patients: a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial” New Delhi, March 31: Replacing regular common salt consumed by hypertensive patients in…
The greatest crime in history
By Justice Markandey Katju Many people believe that the greatest crime in history was sending 6 million Jews to gas chambers in extermination camps at Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, etc by the Nazis. Germans are…
Land to the tillers for genuine food system change
Day Of The Landless 2021 The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC)’s observance of 29 March as “Land of the Landless: Land to the Tillers”, reminds us of the words of Mahatma Gandhi : “In reality, the…
The BJP overkill in West Bengal, predicts Justice Katju
The BJP overkill in West Bengal By Justice Markandey Katju The state assembly elections in West Bengal are the centre of political attention nowadays in India. Several opinion polls about the elections ( whose first…
Mamata Banerji is responsible for the rise of the BJP in West Bengal, writes Justice katju
By Justice Markandey Katju The West Bengal state assembly elections have started, and the opinion poll predictions are that while its seats will be greatly reduced, Chief Minister Mamata Banerji’s Trinamul Congress ( TMC )…
Caste reservations in India
By Justice Markandey Katju Caste reservations in public services and for admissions in educational institutions have become so entrenched in the Indian political and legal sphere that they have almost become a holy cow, which…
Appointing a Scheduled Caste person as a High Court judge
Appointing a Scheduled Caste person as a High Court judge When I was in the Collegium of the Allahabad High Court ( the body which recommends names for appointment of Judges of the High Court,…
Waste workers reject ADB-funded incinerator in Cebu, citing job losses and environmental harm
Cebu City (Philippines) 26 March 2021 – Waste pickers from Barangay Inayawan, Cebu City, demand inclusion into the city’s solid waste management system by offering to accept and manage the recyclables collected daily prior to…
New tool to fight antimicrobial resistance
New Delhi, March 25: A team of researchers at the Department of Biotechnology’s Hyderabad-based National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (DBT-NIAB) has developed a new technique to detect the presence of an antibiotic called Oxytetracycline (OTC)…
A LADY DRESSED IN RIPPED JEANS RIPS APART ETERNAL ‘BHARTIYA’ CULTURE
Tirath Singh Rawat who took over as chief minister of Uttarakhand on March 10, 2021 is a senior cadre of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh [RSS]. He started RSS career by becoming the organizational secretary of…
Inter-religious marriages in India
When I was a judge in the Allahabad High Court ( 1991-2004 ) many cases came before me of inter-religious marriages. Almost all such cases were of a Hindu girl who fell in love with…
The problem with our so-called ‘liberal’ intellectuals and media persons: the blind leading the blind?
The problem with our so-called ‘liberal’ intellectuals and media persons By Justice Markandey Katju Recently Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Arvind Subramaniam resigned from Ashoka University, and there was a big hue and cry over it,…
The role of literature in the transitional era
By Justice Markandey Katju India is passing through a painful transitional period in its history, the transition from a semi-feudal backward country to a highly developed, highly industrialised one. This historical transition can be successfully…