Somebody please take away Justice Markandey Katju’s computer, laptop, tablet and smartphone before he has yet another bout of foot-in-the-mouth disease. The former Press Council chairman has done it again. Even as social media is still buzzing with his last batch of comments, this former Supreme Court judge has put up a post on his blog, Satyam Bruyat, about his alleged encounter with a ‘beautiful actress’ who visited his house.
The post is ridiculously titled, ‘The Chief Justice and the Beautiful Actress’ and talks in a self-huffing manner about how ‘a beautiful actress’ visited him at his house. “I wondered after she left why she had come to meet me. I do not regard myself as a particularly handsome man, (though some ladies may think otherwise !),” he wrote. He rounded it off with a declaration that he had instructed his secretary to refuse her entry the next time as he ‘did not want to get a reputation of being a Chief Justice who flirts with beautiful film actresses!’
If this post has not made women cringe, his comments in the month of January alone will probably make us dig our nails in our palms. He is already being pummeled on social media for sexism for his comment two days ago when he tweeted that the BJP should have made Shazia Ilmi its Chief Ministerial candidate as she is “more beautiful.” He made matters worse by professing to be inspired by the election of Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović as the President of Croatia and went on to surmise that he was in favour of electing beautiful women on all posts.
I regard Shazia Ilmi much more beautiful than Kiran Bedi. If Shazia had been made their C.M. candidate BJP wud have definitely won the Delhi
— Markandey Katju (@mkatju) January 30, 2015
elections. People vote for beautiful faces, as in Croatia. Even a person like me who does not vote wud have voted for Shazia.
— Markandey Katju (@mkatju) January 30, 2015
As if that was not enough, fifteen days ago, Katju came up with another faux pas when he declared that Katrina Kaif should be made the President of India only on the condition that “she sings ‘Sheila ki Jawaani‘ at her Inaugural ceremony!
In a different world, Katju and his roving eye would have been content with mumbling about this to any poor soul who had the misfortune of paying him a visit (not the beautiful actress, hopefully). But forty years ago, somebody invented the Internet, and now here is Mr.Katju, popping up all the time on everybody’s social feed.
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