In a 2007 paper titled ‘How Policymakers View Public Opinion’, Prof Francois Petry, a political scientist,
presumed that in a democracy ‘there ought to be a high degree of harmony or congruence between... Read more »
Government has thought of an extensive approach on empowering new businesses/startups in India through various
strategies and guidelines such as the Foreign Exchange Management (Borrowing or Lending in Rupees) Regulations
2000, Foreign Exchange Management... Read more »
The word ‘Emoji’ originally meant pictogram, which was an acting symbol to convey meaning with
physical object usually seen in computer icons. Before Emoji, Emoticons were used to express
feelings by using a combination... Read more »
“…It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….” (Charles Dickens, a Tale of Two Cities, 1859) The Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC) was projected and portrayed as a... Read more »
Ram Janmabhoomi case: A glimpse into the contest of historic narratives emanating from court records
The Hindus were depending on the narrative of historians and archaeologists who based
their opinions on Indian tradition of passing on history through Srutis (what is heard), Smritis
(which is remembered) and Puranas (what... Read more »
While drafting the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), 1973, the Authors had kept three considerations in mind, which were, an accused person should get a fair trial in accordance with the accepted principles... Read more »
What justifies an author in alienating his copies of work while keeping the exclusive right of reproduction of further copies with him? In the previous piece the author discussed about the foundational... Read more »
The constant use of the Latin maxims in cases, textbooks, treaties and scholarly works related to the
legal field has been around for quite a few centuries now; over time many of these... Read more »
Recently, National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Mumbai, in a unique judgement passed in Kotak India Venture Fund- I vs Indus Biotech Private Limited (Kotak’s Case), referred parties to the Arbitration under Section... Read more »
A democracy places a premium on maximising good for the maximum number of people,
but what makes it different is the premise that there is a lot more room for accommodation
of diverse voices... Read more »