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…
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…
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…
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 )…
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 When I was in the Collegium of the Allahabad High Court ( the body which recommends names for appointment of Judges of the High Court,…
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…
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…
By Justice Markandey Katju I have read the poetry of many countries in the world ( English, American, French, German, Russian, Spanish, etc ) as well of several Indian languages ( Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, etc…
Resignation of PB Mehta and Arvind Subramaniam from Ashoka University An email I received a short while back Regarding Recent Developments at Ashoka University Respected Justice Katju Sir, I write this email to you to…
By Justice Markandey Katju ” Ye kooche ye neelaam ghar dilkashi ke Ye luttte hue kaaravaan zindagi ke Kahaan hain kahaan hai muhaafiz khudi ke Jinhe naaz hai Hind par woh kahaan…
By Justice Markandey Katju This article can be regarded as a sequel to my earlier article ‘The Krishna legend‘. Of all the deities in the Hindu pantheon of gods, Lord Krishna is the most enrapturing…
Wasim Rizvi’s view The demand of Wasim Rizvi, former Chief of the UP Shia Central Waqf Board, to remove 26 verses from the Quran as they promoted ( according to him ) jihadist and terroristic…
Something is rotten in IIT, Kharagpur ” Something is rotten in the state of Denmark ” said Shakespeare in Hamlet, and similarly it can be said that “ Something is rotten in IIT, Kharagpur ”….
By Justice Markandey Katju An Urdu mushaira ( poetry session ) has never been held in the Pakistan Supreme Court, but after I became a Judge in the Indian Supreme Court I got it held…
By Justice Markandey Katju Tomorrow, 14th March is being celebrated as Punjab Culture Day https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ludhiana/celebrating-tomorrow-in-paks-punjab-with-an-offical-order-the-punjab-culture-day-7226330/ The demand of treating Punjabi as equal to Urdu is wholly justified. Our subcontinent is a land of great diversity,…
By Justice Markandey Katju It seems that the ongoing Indian farmers agitation has reached a stalemate. The talks between the two sides have broken down, and the Indian Government has refused to concede to the…
By Justice Markandey Katju When I was a judge in Allahabad High Court ( 1991-2004 ) one evening when I was sitting at home I received a phone call ( it was probably in the…
By Justice Markandey Katju The concept of dual citizenship was introduced in India by the Citizenship ( Amendment ) Act, 2005 pursuant to the recommendation of a High-Level Committee on Indian Diaspora constituted by the…
Some questions to Imran Khan By Justice Markandey Katju Dear Prime Minister Khan Everyone, including me, heard your speech in the Pakistan National Assembly after getting the vote of confidence ( which had been boycotted…
