Markandey Katju

Many people have asked me what practical steps we should take for Indian reunification ? My reply is : at present we should only spread the idea that we are one country and must reunite. We should not go any further. Later, when the idea is widespread ( as it is bound to become since it is based on truth ), people of our subcontinent will use their creativity and find out ways and means for peaceful reunification..

So after the terrible times our country is passing through, with massive poverty, massive unemployment, appalling level of child malnutrition, almost total lack of proper healthcare and good education for the masses, skyrocketing prices of food and other essential commodities, it is inevitable that a prosperous India will arise, with its people enjoying a high standard of living and leading decent lives.

I have repeatedly said that we must transform India ( and by that term I include Pakistan and Bangladesh, for we are really one country only temporarily divided in 1947 by a British swindle on the basis of the bogus two nation theory, but are sure to reunite one day ) into a modern industrial … Read more

  For advertisement on our platform, do call at +91 6377460764 or email us at [email protected]. Justice Katju The Role and Art and Literature  By Justice Katju I have mentioned in several articles that our national aim must be to transform India ( in which term I include Pakistan and Bangladesh, for we are really … Read more

According to Hindu shastras, when one reaches 75 years of age he should take sanyaas ( renunciation )..  For advertisement on our platform, do call at +91 6377460764 or email us at [email protected]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sannyasa I am now almost 79, so I should have renounced everything, and spent my remaining time on earth in transcendental meditation.  … Read more

The Power Source For advertisement on our platform, do call at +91 6377460764 or email us at [email protected]. By Justice Katju I have often called 90% Indians ( in which term I include Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, for we are really one country only temporarily and artificially divided in 1947 by a British swindle called Partition … Read more

Anyone who has outgrown childhood myths and has a sense of realities knows that every country, even if it calls itself a democracy, is in fact ruled by a handful of persons.  For advertisement on our platform, do call at +91 6377460764 or email us at [email protected]. Thus, in 1937 the journalist Ferdinand Lundberg wrote … Read more

For years I have been trying to educate Indians ( and in that term I include Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, as I believe India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are really one country, only temporarily divided by a British swindle on the basis of the bogus two nation theory) ), and show them the way out of their … Read more

Man has two basic attributes, reason and emotion. While the French thinker Voltaire ( 1694-1778 ) emphasized on reason, the French thinker Rousseau ( 1712-1778 ) emphasized on emotion, saying that overemphasis on reason and ignoring emotion will result in man becoming cunning, crafty, scheming and totally selfish and calculating, instead of being patriotic and … Read more

Apart from that, Gandhi also acted as a British agent by diverting the Indian independence struggle from the revolutionary direction of armed struggle which great freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh, Surya Sen, Chandrashekhar Azad, Bismil, Ashfaqulla etc were taking it, to the harmless channel of gimmicks like satyagrah, hunger strike, etc. 

We respectfully submit that many of the changes brought about by the BNS in India  e.g. providing for community service as a punishment for certain offences, or decriminalization of attempt to suicide ( except in certain situations) should be welcomed as steps in the right direction, and should be emulated in Pakistan

Now the Allahabad High Court has a heavy pendency of cases ( over a million ). Consequently, a case heard on a certain day usually comes up for the next hearing after 4-5 years. So the result of my orders in these cases was that in substance by judicial orders I converted one month visas into 4-5 years visas. Why did I do this ? Now that the matter is old I can reveal the real reason.

In the Indian subcontinent democracy can only mean a government for the people, not of or by the people, that is, a government which works for the welfare of the people. Such a government has never existed in India, since our politicians only seek power and pelf ( for which they polarize society on caste and communal lines by inciting hatred ), and have no genuine love for the people. 

Many people of a particular caste regard people of other castes as their enemies, e.g. many Kammas in Andhra Pradesh regard Reddys as their enemies and vice versa, many Lingayats in Karnataka regard Vokkaligas as their enemies, and vice versa, many Yadavs in UP regard Kurmis as their enemies ( though both castes are OBCs ), and vice versa, dalits regard upper castes as enemies, being oppressors, etc

On this occasion I appeal to Muslims and other non-Hindus, particularly in Pakistan and Bangladesh, to celebrate it along with their Hindu brothers and sisters with great gaiety and enthusiasm. 

Upto 1857 there was no communal problem in the Indian subcontinent. There were no communal riots before 1857, and Hindus and Muslims used to live together amicably, like brothers and sisters. They would help each other, and participate in each other’s religious festivals and occasions, Hindus participating in Eid and Moharram, and Muslims participating in Holi and Diwali.

Balochistan has huge natural resources, e.g. coal, oil, natural gas, and minerals such as copper, gold, silver, chromite, marble and limestone. These, instead of being used to benefit the Baloch people, were taken away by Punjabi businessmen, and now are being taken away by the Chinese, while the vast majority of Balochs remain in abject poverty. 

Islam and Prophet Mohammed have often been misunderstood. Islam came in the world as a great liberating force, as it spread the great message of equality. It gave social emancipation to the suppressed sections of society ( e.g. dalits in India ), and that is why Islam spread from Spain to Indonesia. 

The great Tamil poet  Subramania Bharati ( 1882-1921 ) wrote (around 1908-1910) powerful verses in favour of women’s emancipation, at a time when probably no one in India, or even in the World, even thought of women’s emancipation, and thus he was far ahead of his times :

But the Holocaust was committed by Germans and their European collaborators, not by Palestinian Arabs. Why should the latter have been punished for crimes committed by the former ? The establishment of Israel led to the Nakba–an Exodus and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, who were subjected to horrible atrocities

NATO was an organization of Western powers, headed by USA, which was created after the end of the Second World War to prevent expansion of the Soviet Union into Western Europe by armed force. But with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991,and end of the Cold War, NATO should have been scrapped, as its very raison d:etre had come to an end. Now there was no more threat of Soviet expansionism, since there was no more Soviet Union. 

In 1901 Russia was under the despotic and autocratic rule of Czar Nicholas II. There was a strict press censorship, and it was dangerous to criticise the Czar or the government directly, so writers had to write allegorically and symbolically ( just as the Urdu poet Faiz had to do during the martial law regime in Pakistan ).