Upsetting The Balance
When I was a student of law in the Allahabad University I had read of the British Constitutional principle – The King can do no wrong. At that time I did not understand the significance of this...
View ArticleLittle Red Riding Hood
Dear Alice, I read the letter you wrote to me http://www.newslaundry.com/2013/01/alice-in-katjuland/ and wanted to respond. Once upon a time there was a little girl called Little Red Riding Hood who...
View ArticleNo More Fairytales
Dear Noopur, I have read your latest article in Newslaundry. I appreciate your sentiments, and with respect I share them. Rape and other crimes against women are a disgrace to a society and deserve...
View ArticleContrary Claims
I had stated in an earlier post that I gave to Justice Kapadia, the then Chief Justice of India (CJI), three mobile numbers of agents of a very senior Allahabad High Court judge against whom there...
View ArticleMarkandey Katju writes to TOI, says the paper misreported on his petition...
I read on page 13 of today’s The Times of India (TOI) the reporting of the hearing of my petition in the Supreme Court challenging the resolutions of Parliament relating to my comments on Gandhi and...
View ArticleSend a stern warning to Jayalalithaa: Justice Katju writes to the President...
To His Excellency the President of India Shri Pranab Mukherji Rashtrapati Bhawan New Delhi Your Excellency, The Tamil singer Kovan was arrested on 30th October 2015 near Trichy in Tamilnadu for...
View ArticleWe must reunite: Why Pakistan, India and Bangladesh should be one country
After the meeting of Indian and Pakistani National Security Advisers (NSAs) in Bangkok, Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj is going to Islamabad, but it can predicted what will happen. She will...
View ArticleThe Indian media’s got its priorities wrong and needs to introspect if it...
The most important issues for the country are our massive poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, healthcare, casteism, communalism etc., but our media usually highlights issues of relatively lesser...
View ArticleAn ode to Ghalib on his birth anniversary
Yesterday, December 27, was the birth anniversary of Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869), universally regarded as the greatest figure in Urdu poetry, and, in my opinion, one of the greatest poets ever. I wish to...
View ArticleWhy odd-even scheme is just Kejriwal’s latest headline-grabbing stunt
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had won a landslide victory in the Delhi elections in February, 2015, because people were disgusted with the other parties, and wanted a radical change. Arvind Kejriwal had...
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