Opinion

Former judge of Supreme Court of India, Mr. Markandey Katju elucidates his point of view related to India’s present and past with the dimension of the factors that define its future. Can India be a developed country? What is the advantage? And what are the problems? More

    A lot is being said about Bangladesh’s overtaking India in per capita GDP growth, as reported by the IMF. In my opinion, this is much ado about nothing. Has massive poverty, unemployment, malnourishment, lack of healthcare, etc been eliminated in Bangladesh? Not at all. So merely saying that its per capita GDP has […] More

A hallmark of a civilised society is that minorities therein can live with dignity and honour. From that standpoint, I regard neither India nor Pakistan as civilised societies, since minorities are oppressed in both countries. In this connection, I may narrate an incident. I was a judge of the Allahabad High Court, which is the […] More

I condemn the Hathras gang rape, and call for harsh punishment of the culprits. However, having said that there is one aspect which also needs to be considered. Sex is a natural urge in men. It is sometimes said that after food, the next requirement is sex. In a conservative society like India, one can […] More

A Muslim girl, single and aged 28 years, living in Delhi, and working for a corporate on a salary of Rs 35,000 p.m. sent me a Facebook message yesterday stating that she wanted to get married but her parents are old and have been unable to find a suitable match for her. She sought my […] More

मैं राम को भारतीय राष्ट्र का (जिसमें पाकिस्तान और बांग्लादेश भी शामिल हैं ) का महान परदादा मानता हूं, पिता सम्राट अकबर और दादा, सम्राट । आज कुछ धर्मांध लोगों के कारण राम को भारत में अल्पसंख्यकों द्वारा उत्पीड़क या अत्याचारी माना जाता है, लेकिन क्या वह वास्तव में ऐसे थे ? सत्य इसके विपरीत […] More

I spoke on the telephone today with a friend in my home town Allahabad.  He told me the economic condition among businessmen is very grim. He had been to Civil Lines recently and found very few customers in the shops there, which had a deserted look. Even for essential groceries people were doing online shopping […] More

Sometimes I feel I had wasted all my time for years in my life trying to educate the Indian people and trying to change their mindsets and become rational, scientific, and modern-minded, instead of remaining largely casteist, communal, superstitious and stupid. I told Hindus that a cow cannot be a ‘gomata’ because an animal cannot […] More

The Indian (and Pakistani) media keep clamouring for freedom of speech. But then it carefully draws a line : there must be no mention of a revolution. The word ‘revolution’ is an anathema, a wraith, an apparition, a bogeyman for them, from which they run like the plague. Instead, to divert attention, they focus on […] More

I read Kailash Jeengar’s article titled ‘ Abolition of caste-based reservation untenable as long as Dalits suffer atrocities, prejudice-a rebuttal to Justice Katju  ‘ published in firstpost.com. This was in response to my article ‘ All caste-based reservations must be abolished ‘published in theweek.in Basically what Prof Jeengar has said is that Dalits today are […] More

In his speeches, during his election campaign, Imran Khan had promised that if his party PTI came to power he would establish a ‘Madina ki Riyasat’ in Pakistan. Here is his Madine ki Riyasat : (1) Imran said he would shoot himself rather than take loans. But his government has in one year taken 16 […] More