By Justice Katju The central government has blocked youtube and video tweets showing the BBC commentary on the Gujarat riots. Is this restriction valid ? In this connection the judgment of the celebrated Justice Louis Brandeis of the US Supreme Court in Whitney vs California ( 1927 ) is noteworthyContinue Reading
In India the state assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh and for the Municipal Council of Delhi are over, and the results are awaited. Soon thereafter preparations will begin for the state assembly elections in 2023 in Tripura ( due in March ), Karnataka ( due in May ),Continue Reading
The News Caravan News Desk Justice Markandey Katju In my opinion all this talk is irrelevant. The real ruler of Pakistan, was, is, and will remain its army. So even if Imran Khan again becomes the Prime Minister, he will only be a dummy and a puppet. It is saidContinue Reading
TheNewsCaravan WebDesk Rau mein hai rakhsh-e-umr kahaan dekhiye thame Nai haath baag par hain na paa hai rakaab mein – Mirza Ghalib रौ में है रख़्श-ए-उम्र कहाँ देखिये थमे नै हाथ बाग पर हैं ना पा है रिक़ाब में رو میں ہے رخش عمر کہاں دیکھیے تھمے نے ہاتھ باگContinue Reading
I have joked about many communities, Bengalis, Tamils, Biharis, Nagas, etc, so naturally people asked me to joke about my own community, Kashmiris. There is a Persian adage that one should avoid 3 types of people : awwal Afghan, doyam Kambo, soyam bazzaat Kashmiri ( i.e. first Afghans, second Kambos,Continue Reading
When I was in Allahabad I would go regularly to a yogi sadhu, Swami Vishnudevanand Saraswati, to learn yoga. He had his ashram where he lived next to the Ganga bandh. He was a Bengali and had become a sadhu at a very young age. He travelled to many placesContinue Reading
Today, 14th November, is Children’s Day.How do we celebrate Children’s Day ? By ensuring that no child is abused or exploited, no child is deprived of food, clothing, education, medicine and shelter, no child is treated with hatred and made to have an inferiority complex.But how do we ensure thatContinue Reading
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru 14th November, is the birthday of Pt Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister. A friend of mine told me this story when I was a lawyer in Allahabad. This friend, who was a few years older than me, is now no more. In the late 1950s, a convocationContinue Reading
Many Indians are celebrating Pakistan’s defeat by England in the T20 World Cup cricket tournament, as if India has won the Cup. These fools don’t understand that India and Pakistan are in fact one country, only temporarily divided by the Britishers ( the way they divided Ireland, Cyprus, Palestine, etcContinue Reading
Today, 9th November, is the birthday of the Urdu poet Mohammad Iqbal, and it is being celebrated in Pakistan as Iqbal Day ( since Iqbal subscribed to and propagated the 2 nation theory on which Pakistan was created ) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iqbal_Day While I regard Iqbal as a good poet, I intenselyContinue Reading