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25.01.20 - Markandey Katju
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January 26 is celebrated as Republic Day in India, but I have renamed it Cheer Haran (disrobing) Day. The truth is that the Constitution promulgated in 1950 has been flagrantly flouted and torn to shreds and has been rendered a scarecrow, hollow and empty, and ...
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18.01.20 - Markandey Katju
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The preamble to the Indian Constitution declares India to be a secular country, and Articles 25 to 30 are also that effect.
 But what is the truth? The truth is that the Constitution is only a piece of paper, and the ground reality is that India ...
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BAS KARO AB 'MANN KI BAAT'
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SPEAKING AT THE 50th anniversary of South India’s Tughlak magazine this week, Prime minister Narendra Modi said that he believed that there are two essential reasons "that our great civilisation has prospered. The first is India’s celebration of harmony, diversity and brotherhood. The second reason ...
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SUPREME COURT & INJUSTICE
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09.01.20 - Markandey Katju and Janhvi Prakash
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Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting
These words, from the Bible ( Daniel : 5 : 27), were used by Sir Winston Churchill in 1938 to criticise Neville Chamberlain, the then British Prime Minister, for signing the shameful Munich Pact with Hitler, and ...
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India’s image as a fast growing world power and one of the flag bearers of democracy has taken a serious hit with a series of incidents in the recent past which have shown the country in poor light. The country is hurtling from one crisis ...
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WHAT HAPPENED at the JNU will forever remain a blot in the history of India's democracy as also of its centres of higher education. Punjabi Tribune Editor, Dr Swarajbir, in his editorial comment on the development, has recalled Pablo Neruda’s "I’m Explaining a Few Things,” the ...
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THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK
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03.01.20 - Mani Shankar Aiyar
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IT TAKES some chutzpah for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to proclaim his horror of violence in student demonstrations and "anarchy” on the streets directed at a duly elected government when he himself was the product of one of the most violent student protests known to ...
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THE DISTRUST for the Centre is such in Punjab that a large section of Punjabis have been sporting stickers and even number plates in Gurmukhi on their vehicles. While this was to oppose the slogan of ‘one nation-one language’, the average Punjabi was vociferous in ...
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NATIONALISM VS SECULARISM
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27.12.19 - Harcharan Bains
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FORGET ABOUT ALL Indians being Hindus, not even all Hindus are Indians. There are over 3.3 million Hindus in Pakistan who are as loyal to their country as the Muslims there. They have have had Hindus as legislators, MPs, even federal ministers who are as ...
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MOST YOUNG readers may not recall an infamous slogan coined by former Congress president Dev Kant Barua during the emergency when the then prime minister Indira Gandhi was at the peak of power. He had declared that "India is Indira and Indira is India”.
 Indira Gandhi ...
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18.12.19 - Markandey Katju
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I regret to say this, but I must speak the truth: bad days are coming for the 200 million Indian Muslims (see my article ‘ Wake up India, Dark Days Ahead!’)
Consider the facts:
1. About 80% of the Indian population is Hindu, and most Indian Hindus have ...
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NRC, CAB & THE CONSTITUTION
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11.12.19 - Justice Markandey Katju
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HOME MINISTER Amit Shah has called Bangladeshi immigrants ’deemak‘ or termites. However, in my opinion it is the BJP which is the real deemak eating up the country by its policy of spreading communal hatred, polarizing society, oppressing and terrorizing minorities, suppressing democracy and neo-fascist ...
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IN THE early hours of Friday, at 3 am to be precise, the Telangana police killed four suspects in the Hyderabad rape-murder case. The killing took place at Chattapally, where the body of the victim was burnt on 27 November.  The police claim they went ...
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DEMANDING LYNCHING OF RAPISTS?
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03.12.19 - Markandey Katju
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THE RECENT brutal rape-cum-murder of Dr Priyanka Reddy, the young veterinary doctor of Hyderabad, has shocked the whole of India, and there have been loud demands for death sentence of the culprits, one Member of the Indian Parliament even demanding lynching of rapists.
 The UN General ...
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AFTER JUSTICE RANAJAN GOGOI'S RETIREMENT
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JUSTICE RANJAN GOGOI, who laid down the office of the Chief Justice of india, has left a controversial legacy that has dented the institutional credibility of Supreme Court and has raised questions that have remain unanswered. Several of his actions and the procedures adopted by ...
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10.11.19 - Justice Markandey Katju
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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 ...
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AYODHYA, LAW, JUSTICE AND US
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09.11.19 - Harcharan Bains
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FIRST OF ALL, we all know that it is a "political judgement." In the present case, that does not necessarily mean that it is a bad judgement.
As facts stand, neither the Hindus nor the Muslims could prove their legitimate title claims on the land before ...
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07.11.19 - Justice Markandey Katju
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Many Kashmiris demand azadi (independence) for Kashmir, and some non Kashmiris too e.g. some students of JNU etc who supported the demand. To examine the justification for this demand certain basic concepts need be cleared up.
 The test of every political act or system is one, ...
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The recent clash between lawyers and policemen in the national capital and the subsequent merciless beating up of individual policemen and even litigants by unruly lawyers is not just a matter of shame but of serious concern.
Videos of a section of lawyers acting like goons ...
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GAIRON PE KARAM, APNON PE SITAM
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THE CENTRAL government’s decision to allow visit of 27 members of the European Parliament visiting India to visit the Kashmir Valley has raised eyebrows and is a cause of concern particularly when Indian members of parliament have so far not been allowed to tour the ...
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