Justice Markandey Katju – I wish I could wish people a happy new year, but I regret I cannot since I just cannot be a hypocrite. The truth is that from this year India is going to enter into an era of what can be called the Great Turbulence, which in my […]
Justice Markandey Katju – Ahmadiyas are a tiny peaceful community of about 5 million in Pakistan, ( which has a total population of over 200 million ) who have been treated barbarically by religious extremists since long, the way Jews were treated in Nazi Germany. The whole world celebrated Human Rights Day on […]
Justice Markandey Katju – The exit polls for the five state assembly elections indicate disaster for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. If their prediction proves correct, Rajasthan is lost to the BJP, with similar results in Madhya Pradesh,Chattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram. In this eventuality, as I mentioned in my article in dailyo [https://www.dailyo.in/voices/farmers-protest-yogendra-yadav-agrarian-distress-lok-sabha-election-2019/story/1/28195.html], large […]
Justice Markandey Katju – I was in a Thanksgiving party in an American city recently, and some people there said they had heard in the Indian media of an Indian industrialist’s daughter forthcoming wedding on 12th December in Mumbai. The media had reported how fabulous and mind blowing the wedding will be. […]
Justice Markandey Katju – The farmers’ march to the Indian Parliament has been organized, Friday, November 30, by the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, which claims to be an umbrella organization of over 200 farmers bodies of India, and this evening crowds have collected in Ramlila ground in Delhi for a cultural […]
Justice Markandey Katju, former Judge, Indian Supreme Court The opening of the Kartarpur corridor from Dera Baba Nanak Saheb in Indian Punjab to Gurdwara Darbara Kartarpur Saheb in Pakistan is being hailed with great hoopla and glee by many political leaders, media persons and others who say this is the beginning of an era of […]
Justice Markandey Katju Speaking at a function organized by the Youth Bar Association of India on September 29, 2018, a few days before he took the oath as Chief Justice of India on October 3, Justice Ranjan Gogoi said that delays in justice is bringing the judiciary into disrepute, and that he had a […]
Justice Markandey Katju On Wednesday 31st October, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the almost 600 feet ( 182 meters ) tall statue of Sardar Patel, ( called Statue of Unity ) reputedly the tallest in the world, 4 times as tall as the Statue of Liberty in New York, built at a […]
Justice Markandey Katju Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination has been confirmed by the US Senate, October 6, and within hours he was sworn in by Chief Justice John Robert, making him ‘Justice Kavanaugh’. Why was there such a hue and cry over his nomination? There were two reasons: 1) He had allegedly committed sexual molestations when […]
Justice Markandey Katju I was a lawyer for 20 years in India, and a judge for another 20 (as judge and acting chief justice of Allahabad High Court, chief justice of Madras High Court, chief justice of Delhi High Court, and, finally, a judge in the Indian Supreme Court). So I have a fairly good understanding […]
