Markandey Katju

In the wee hours of Friday, the Telangana police killed all the four accused in the rape and murder of a 26-year-old female veterinarian.

'The police themselves are acting like investigator, judge and jury', says a woman rights activist on the police encounter of four rape-murder accused.

Maneka Gandhi, Kejriwal raise questions about role of law while most others celebrate.

What was Justice Gogoi so upset about regarding the CBI hearing? It was much ado about nothing. But it is extremely demoralising to make disparaging comments against independent media.

While capturing foreign markets, the Chinese were carefully protecting their own by high tariffs. It has to be said to the credit of President Trump that he has called the Chinese bluff, and bluntly told the Chinese that this won't do.

Adding, Katju said that his proposed magnum opus “will gross ten times more profits than 'Bahubali'”.

Katju's Bihar and Kashmir combo offer hurts Biharis.

Markandey Katju's warning to the nation about the times to come

“The truth is most of the Kashmiri youth have been thoroughly alienated, and are intensely hostile to India. An army can fight another army, it cannot fight the masses”

Katju was hired to get best possible advice, says BCCI secretary

Describing Justice Katju's remarks as scary and ad hominem, Pratap Bhanu Mehta goes on to make a larger point:

Secularism, like communalism, is no longer a first principles debate; it is a pretext for forcing issues where none exist. The only two interpretations of secularism that are current in India are deeply warped: secularism as erasure of identity, or secularism as communal parity. Neither interpretation has room for the core meaning: secularism is about the freedom of individuals to make of themselves what they will; it is about making “identity” irrelevant to politics, not about its enforced erasure. 

Citing a recent report according to which two  Muslim-run schools in Bahraich had “converted” to madrasas  in order to access a grant of Rs 6000 available to madrasas, "and the boys and girls had to suddenly start wearing skull caps and headscarves — with their ties," he points out how this case illustrates "the ways in which identities get structured by the incentives provided by the state":

But in a sense it is also illustrative of the way the Congress thinks: it wants to give benefits to minorities, not as a matter of their individual rights, not as part of an overall right to education, but as “minorities”.

...The BJP tags to target, Congress tags to provide noblesse oblige. But it is the tagging that’s insidious.

More here: Identity markers

‘Separatism’ is not the way to an egalitarian India

The open letter written by Justice Markandey Katju, to the judges of the Supreme Court demanding justice in the Ikhlaque case

It is not the judiciary’s job to bring about changes in a statutory body, even if it is the controversial Board of Control for Cricket in India

Katju's ammo filled autobiography, Shakespeare's 400th birthday and the Kejriwal-Modi fight that is set to hit bookstores

If national progress is our aim, the freedom to think, to dissent is essential. The irrational must be weeded out.

Our state institutions are dilapidated, our leaders a bunch of rogues. The time for tinkering is over, drastic measures are required.

Questions about the Tomar case, questions of liberty

They have done a great job and have upheld the freedom of the press.

Markandey Katju’s explosive revelations puts the SC collegium, ex-CJIs under scanner

Justice Katju, who is posing many questions, needs to answer a few himself. Why did he wait nine years before going public?

Supreme Court-appointed committee also asks BCCI secretary Shirke to file status report by Aug 25

By sending Shirke to meet the Lodha Committee, the BCCI has not heeded the advice of retired Supreme Court judge Justice Markandey Katju