Tag: inequality

The reality of India

Many tall claims are made that India is a glorious country with a bright future, with the fastest growing economy in the world, the third largest economy, having overtaken Japan, bullet trains, space missions, digital India, blah blah blah.

The claims about AI are grossly exaggerated

Justice Katju critiques the overhyped narrative surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI), arguing that its portrayal as a revolutionary solution to global issues is exaggerated. While acknowledging AI’s utility in fields like medicine, he contends it fails to address core socio-economic challenges—poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, and inadequate healthcare—plaguing underdeveloped nations. Katju asserts AI lacks human creativity, essential for solving these problems, and may reinforce inequality by benefiting tech elites. He views AI as a distraction, akin to historical diversions like Roman circuses, unable to deliver systemic change without a people’s revolution. The piece calls for disillusionment from AI’s inflated promises.

Katju’s View on Democracy or Deception – How Indian Independence Became a Facade for the Rule of Rogues

Justice Markandey Katju critiques the notion of India’s 1947 Independence as a ‘phoney freedom’, arguing that it did not liberate citizens from poverty, unemployment, or social injustices. He contends that the change from British to Indian rulers merely swapped oppressors, leading to governance by a corrupt, self-serving elite rather than the democratic ideal of rule by the people. Katju highlights the stark inequality, ineffective political leadership, and the misuse of nationalism to incite division, questioning the true value of the constitutional democracy established, which he sees as a scarecrow, ineffective against the real challenges facing the nation.