Indian Independence Day, 15th August, is approaching, and on this occasion I appeal to the Indian Govt to bestow the nation’s highest award, the Bharat Ratna, on Dr Dwarkanath Kotnis, who went to China in 1938 with an Indian medical mission to help the Chinese in their fight against ImperialistContinue Reading
A BJP MP Ajay Pratap Singh has called for banning live-in relationships https://indianexpress.com/article/india/bjp-mp-calls-for-ban-on-live-in-relationships-8862180/ https://thewire.in/rights/bjp-mp-calls-for-ban-on-live-in-relationships-to-protect-women His argument is that though the Indian Supreme Court has said that such relationships are not illegal, it has also said that they are not approved by the majority in Indian society. Thus in Khushboo vsContinue Reading
One day on a nice summer evening a little girl called Alice was dozing on a green meadow when she saw a white rabbit wearing a blue coat running on his two legs, looking at a watch, and saying ” I am late ”. The rabbit jumped into a holeContinue Reading
By Justice Katju When I was in Allahabad I used to play for a cricket team,Once we played against a rival team and were all out for 1 run.Naturally we were feeling very despondent, and thought the match was over.Seeing our crestfallen faces the umpire came over to us andContinue Reading
Some time back a group of 15 or 16 Americans came from USA to India. They were all white, half of them women.Someone organised a meeting between them and me in Delhi. When we sat together I mentioned in my address to them that the condition of blacks of USAContinue Reading
By Justice Katju I sometimes use my status as a former Indian Supreme Court Judge to help people in distress. An example is given below. Recently I had been invited to Mapappuram in Kerala in a function. Before the function some people informed me of an acute problem youth facedContinue Reading
By Justice KatjuUrdu shaayari should be banned as being unislamic in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.What else should be done to a poetry whose greatest poet Mirza Ghalib writes :” Masjid ke zer-e-saaya kharaabaat chaahiye ”i.e.” Below a mosque there should be a wine shop ”( Wine is haraam orContinue Reading
by Justice Katju I had a long talk on whatsapp a short while back with a brave and upright Pakistani journalist who has been staying for some time in USA. He is a strong supporter of former Prime Minister Imran Khan ( as I am too ), and for thisContinue Reading
While Kerala has done extremely well in primary education and has practically wiped out illiteracy ( it is perhaps the best state in India in this regard ), education after class 10 has been criminally neglected. This I found personally during my recent visit there. Bright students who had securedContinue Reading
Yesterday, 20th July, we held an important lunch meeting of Kalidas Ghalib Foundation KGF ( of which I am the patron ) in Karim’s restaurant in the India Islamic Cultural Centre, Delhi. It was attended inter alia by the Chairman of Kalidas Ghalib Foundation (KGF ) Naushad Ali Syed (Continue Reading