Guest blogger and Supreme Court advocate Shinam A Seth writes about what has made this election special. The last vote has been cast. The last franchise exercised. The exit polls play havoc with the mind and the market alike. As the curtains on the largest democratic, electoral exercise known to hum...
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It has been a difficult time over the past few months and apparently mixed emotions prevail among the lawyers and law graduates who are 35 years and above when they joined law course in 2009 in various colleges in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and other parts of India. Around 400 enrolled and practising...
In a world fraught with greed, temptation, confusion, discontent and inertia amongst the leaders, there is very little hope for an ethical entrepreneur. The reality is that the very foundation of ethics in business that is the regulations, rules and the regulators are mostly hollow. I say this espec...
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Tittilandus* The Supreme Court of India yesterday possibly set the largest bail bond in the history of the world: Rs. 37,000 crores (or about $6 billion) for the release of Subrata Roy from prison. Strictly (and legally) speaking of course, it’s not a bail bond, but only the t...
Mr. Shivraj Singh Chouhan, 54 took leadership of the heart of India, Madhya Pradesh , at that time when it needed the most strong influential leader to lead. The state was in its worst condition. The wind was against him, he had the task of climbing the hill. But the made it look so easy, and as a r...
In another interesting song and dance by the forever entertaining Aam Admi Party, recently the Chief Minister of the Govt. of the NCT of Delhi addressed a melodramatic letter to the Lt. Governor that would leave most Ekta Kapoor-esque writers lining up at the Secretariat for pointers. Have to give i...
By now all those millions of android and apple lovers must have expressed their anger and disappointment at the weekend launch of bbm, popularly know as the blackberry messenger. On Friday night, there existed two fake apps in Google play store, that increased to around 14 by midday on Saturday and ...
On 8 th August, 2013, the upper house of the Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) gave its nod for the new Companies Bill. It was first introduced as Companies Bill 2009 in the Lok Sabha on August 3, 2009, and was then referred to standing committee on finance. It came back to the house as Companies Bill...
The year is 2004. Its quite crowded for a weekday at this Andheri (East) dance bar. He’s been here for an hour and a half and now the 4th round of that cheap double-whisky is getting to him. A female approaches. Comely features. Easy on the eyes. Probably from the countryside…trying to make some ext...
The little well known Eminem Song, “Bully” rings in my head, every time I hear about a trademark Bullying case. The ugly 3 headed Hydra had previously been pillaging and looting only American companies, but now it looks like it has crossed the borders and entered India as well, with The San Francisc...
By Partha Pati, Associate and Nishith Pandit, Intern, Abhay Nevagi and Associates Introduction Surveillance means close observation of a person or group especially the one who are under suspicion or the act or observing or the condition of being observed [i] . Being a developing country, India has b...
Being the daughter of the Principal of a school in Pilani, Rajasthan and a first year law student at GLC, Mumbai I was really shocked when I heard about the chronicles of the Right to Education Act, 2009 [RTE Act]. The Schools religiously followed the instructions given to them by the Block Office a...
b2ap3_thumbnail_Nandy_ashis1.jpg Ashis Nandy is not simplistic with his words. His way of presenting his thoughts and ideas is rather overloaded with symbolism. He has a way with using paradoxes, aphorisms, riddles, ironies, metaphors, imagery, and personifications to take his readers by surprise. H...
He wears the Gandhi topi, the white clothes, the frugal lifestyle (according to medical reports, Anna only eats one major meal a day), usually seen in police stations and of course, the giant black and white poster of M.K.Gandhi as a background wherever he is spotted and he claims he is not Gandhi! ...
If an extremist enables a mass killing but later provides valuable information, what should his sentence be? In the November of 2008, as world watched the horror unfold, more than 160 people were mercilessly killed and at least 308 were ruthlessly injured in the twelve coordinated shootings and bomb...
I recently had an opportunity to be a part of a “literacy program”, as it was called, on girl students’ exploitation and protection. It was organized by the Dharwad District Legal Services Authority, in association with the Children’s Academy, the Women and Child Development Department, the Police D...
The brutal rape which had taken place in Delhi is not a shame only for Delhi or for central government rather it’s a blemish on every citizen of India and the responsibility must be shared though share of Delhi government is greater but we cannot attribute total liability to them. As citizen of a gr...
Implementation of Aadhaar Scheme: A Bench of Chief Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice J. Chelameswar issued notice to Central Government, while hearing a Writ Petition filed by Justice K.S.Puttaswamy (Retd) & Anr challenging the implementation of the Aadhaar scheme while a bill regarding the sam...
The entire media, print or otherwise, in India has given an overwhelming welcome to “Operation X” which resulted in secretly hanging one of the most expensively treated terrorists in India - estimated figures on how much it has cost to try and incarcerate Kasab have reached approximately Rs 41 crore...
India’s polity is a fine example of the modern governmental system modelled on the principle of trias politica , commonly called as the ‘separation of powers’ where each branch, the legislature, executive and the judiciary, hold distinct powers and areas of responsibility. The role of the executive ...