Vintage Katju

IN Media Watch Briefs | 20/04/2012

The staid accounts that have come out of Press Council Chairperson Markandey Katju's visit to the Indian Womens Press Corp in Delhi  don't do justice to his performance there. He brought up his old statements about 90 per cent of  Indians being of low intellectual calibre, and referred to his own earlier judgement which decribed women in an extra maritial relationship as keeps. He said  those who only knew Hindi belonged to the bullock cart age, and said child labour could be justified because families had to eat. And then the  good judge was disappointed that the repast laid out for tea was vegetarian.