Mainstream Weekly

Tasleema Nasreen and Islam | Justice Katju

Justice Markandey Katju — 2023-06-30T22:26:41Z

Islamophobia has been whipped up in several parts of the world, and there are many persons who have severely condemned Islam e,g. Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Murray, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, etc.
Among these critics of Islam is Tasleema Nasreen, the Bangladeshi doctor who had to flee from Bangladesh into India due to fatwas against her and death threats from religious extremists. Even in India she was given threats in West Bengal and attacked in Hyderabad. She then lived in Sweden for some years (…)

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How I stayed the deportation of Pakistanis | Justice Katju

Justice Markandey Katju — 2023-05-13T08:16:58Z

When I was a Judge in Allahabad High Court ( 1991-2004 ) I heard dozens of cases of Pakistanis visiting India who were served deportation orders for deporting them to Pakistan, but wanted to stay in India. They filed writ petitions against these orders, which came up before me. In all such cases I passed this order “ Until further orders the petitioner will not be deported from India “.
These Pakistanis were old people who had migrated from UP in India to Pakistan after Partition of 1947. (…)

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Dr Faizi's fatuity | Justice Katju

Justice Markandey Katju — 2023-04-29T09:49:00Z

Dr S. Faizi, the eminent Indian ecologist, reminds me of the English poet Shelley, whom Matthew Arnold described as '' an ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain."
Dr Faizi has written an article titled 'Towards an Asian Union' published in Mainstream Weekly magazine. (http://mainstreamweekly.net/article13391.html)
In this article, he has advocated the formation of an Asian Union, patterned on the European Union, for the political and economic cooperation of (…)

- 2023