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JUDICIARY IS certainly passing through one of its darkest phases in the country’s history. It had shown such temerity and compliance only during the internal emergency declared by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi. In some ways, perhaps, the conduct of some judges now is ...
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19.03.20 - Markandey Katju & Aditya Manubarwala
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In wake of the prevailing Novel Covid-19 situation in the country, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and several High Courts as well as Tribunals have issued circulars limiting hearings of cases to urgent matters only.
 Recently, a learned Single Judge of the Bombay High Court ...
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THE GRAND OLD Party of India, the 135 year old Indian National Congress, appears to be on the path to self-destruction. Even the die-hard supporters of the party, which has ruled the country for 60 years, have begun to wonder if the party with its ...
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11.03.20 - Markandey Katju
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"Jeevan ka safar hai toolaani Yaan ikraani hai naadaani Jo shahsawaar maahir hain Woh raah badalte rehte hain" It means:
"Life’s journey is long To be consistent in it is a sign of immaturity The expert horse riders Keep changing their paths"
 A huge political storm has been ...
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THE RECENT riots in Delhi would remain a blot on the nation as the national capital faced avoidable violence for three days leaving nearly 50 people killed and several injured. The protest at Shaheen Bagh, which was allowed to continue for two months, was a ...
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03.03.20 - Markandey Katju
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The petitions challenging the detention of the Kashmiri leaders Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have been fixed for hearing before the Supreme Court on 5th March. An important question in these cases is how should the Attorney General of India (or the Solicitor General of ...
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02.03.20 - Markandey Katju
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I regret to say so but the truth is that nowadays having a Muslim name in India, like Tahir Hussain, is dangerous, being itself sufficient proof in the eyes of many of being guilty of a major crime like murder, rape, dacoity, arson, etc.
 How else ...
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Liberal support implies limited cohorts in support outside of urban agglomerations Therefore the AAP experiment to go national failed. Their support base was largely liberal.
Nationalism and soft-Hindutva obtains the majority vote in all states bar some. As a single cohort subscribing to any concrete ideology, ...
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29.02.20 - Markandey Katju
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The tragic violence in Delhi would never have happened if the Delhi police had acted in the manner the police is meant to act in a democracy, as described in the speech of Sir Robert Mark (quoted herein), that is, in a totally neutral, non ...
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29.02.20 - Markandey Katju
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I am no supporter of Kanhaiya Kumar, rather, I have repeatedly called him, and his erstwhile colleagues in JNU, Delhi Shehla Rashid and Umar Khalid, empty headed demagogues.
Nevertheless, I do not believe he, or his colleagues, committed any crime on the JNU campus on 9th ...
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23.02.20 - Punjab Today Media Desk
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CHANDIGARH: Coming down heavily on Punjab Police chief Dinkar Gupta, the influential mass circulation daily Ajit today castigated him for suspecting the entire Sikh community, and said he was following in the foot prints of his boss chief minister Amarinder Singh who had displayed poor ...
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21.02.20 - Markandey Katju
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The whole of India seems to be baying for the blood of the accused who have been found guilty in the Nirbhaya gang rape committed in December 2012 in Delhi, and are scheduled to be hanged on the morning of 20th March.
 Ever since this heinous ...
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Jinhe Naaz Hai Hind Par Woh Kahaan Hain?
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15.02.20 - Markandey Katju
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DR KAFEEL KHAN is a medical practitioner who did his MBBS and MD (Paediatrics) from the renowned Manipal Medical College, Karnataka, and thereafter served as a lecturer in BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur. When several children died in 2017 in the Gorakhpur hospital attached to the ...
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IT'S VIOLATION OF THEIR CONSTITUIONAL RIGHTS
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13.02.20 - Markandey Katju
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OMAR ABDULLAH, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, has been in detention since August last year under the J&K Public Safety Act. I submit that every moment of his detention, as well as the detention of other Kashmiri leaders, has been a gross violation ...
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04.02.20 - Markandey Katju
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WHEN former Chief Justice of India Deepak Mishra misbehaved in allocating jurisdiction in the Supreme Court, four senior-most judges, including Ranjan Gogoi, protested by holding an open press conference and speaking against Mishra.  But when Ranjan Gogoi (I refuse to call him ‘Justice’ as a ...
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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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