Renowned scholar, lawyer, and political commentator Abdul Ghafoor Majeed Noorani, popularly known as A.G. Noorani, has passed away in Mumbai today. Noorani was a distinguished figure in Indian legal and political circles, having practiced as an advocate in the Supreme Court of India and the Bombay High Court.
“AG Noorani, a giant among scholars has passed away. I learnt a great deal from him, from the constitution, to Kashmir, to China & even the art of appreciating good food. May Allah grant him maghfirah,” wrote AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on X.
Noorani was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 16 September 1930. He attended a Jesuit school, St. Mary’s, and got his law degree from Government Law College, Mumbai.
Noorani wrote columns for various publications, including Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Dawn, The Statesman, Frontline, Economic and Political Weekly, and Dainik Bhaskar. He wrote thousands of articles and began writing in the early 1960s.
He was the author of numerous books, including “The Kashmir Question”, “Badruddin Tyabji”, “Ministers’ Misconduct”, “Brezhnev’s Plan for Asian Security”, “The Presidential System”, “The Trial of Bhagat Singh”, “Constitutional Questions in India”, “The RSS and the BJP: A Division of Labour,” and “The RSS: A Menace to India.”
