Justice Markandey Katju- I submit that the recent Ayodhya verdict of the Supreme Court will go down in the annals of Indian legal history in the same category as its decision in ADM Jabalpur vs Shivakant Shukla, 1975, the only difference being that unlike the latter, in this one there is not a single […]
Justice Markandey Katju- In his book ‘ Through the Russian Revolution ‘, the American journalist Albert Rhys Williams, who was in Russia at the time of the 1917 Revolution, writes : ‘ In Moscow I saw two peasant soldiers gazing at a poster stuck up on a kiosk. ” We can’t read a word […]
Justice Markandey Katju – The Ram Mandir issue has again picked up momentum as Lok Sabha elections approach, and it is obviously connected to the latter. The Supreme Court is being blamed by many people for procrastinating over the case before it, and there have been some protests outside the Court premises. Whichever way […]
Justice Markandey Katju Most ‘intellectuals’ in India (to whose ranks most academicians, writers, media persons, etc claim to belong) profess to be Nehruites. In other words they claim to stand for liberalism, secularism, democratic principles (for example, freedom of speech and of the press) etc, in contrast to Modiites, who are allegedly illiberal, communal, […]
Justice Markandey Katju theprint.in has published Kumar Ketkar’s article ‘In Modi era intellectuals confess they are confused. My response is, one, almost all Indian ‘intellectuals,’ including professors in universities, mediapersons, writers, etc are pseudo-intellectuals who are puffed up with arrogance and bookish, sterile knowledge, which is no knowledge at all. No wonder they are confused. Two, there is no confusion […]
