Month: August 2014

  • National Judicial Appointments Commission: A Study in Effectiveness

    By Rajashree Aryabala Tripathy, KIIT Law School, Bhubaneswar. Article 124(2) states, whenever there is a proposal for appointment of the Supreme Court Judges, it will be done by the President of India in consultation with other Judges of the Supreme Court. But time has changed and the judiciary, executive and legislature have to take steps according…

  • Corporate Social Responsibility: An Analysis

    By Sibani Panda, KIIT Law School, Bhubaneswar. “Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community” In the recent years, increasing attention has been given to the concept of corporate social responsibility. The corporate social responsibility is an evolving concept and it does not have a universally accepted definition, so it generally…

  • Uniform Civil Code: Towards Gender Justice

    By Dishari Chakrabarti, School of Law, KIIT University. Politics of our nation has become so ingrained in pacification with specific sections of the society that our fundamental right of free speech and expression cannot be protected by the State. As a consequence of this appeasement the level of tolerance has reduced and which resulted in complete disregard…

  • Should Juvenile Justice Law be changed?

    By Madhvi Chopra, VIPS, GGSIPU, New Delhi. A “juvenile” means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age. A boy or girl under eighteen years of age is a “juvenile” according to the Juvenile Justice Act (JJA), 2000. Earlier, according to the JJA, 1986, the age of boys and girls were different, but…

  • Dual Citizenship in India: Advantages

    By Stuti Saxena, IGNOU, Delhi. Citizenship in India is administered under the statutory provisions of the Citizenship Act, 1955, which has been amended from time to time. Further to this, Indian Constitution also enshrines the tenets of Citizenship in its Part II. India follows the system of single citizenship. As per Indian nationality law, jus…

  • LGBT Rights in India

    By Nikhil Nair, VIPS, New Delhi. LGBT is a common term used to describe people who are Lesbians, Gay, Bisexuals and Transgender. The ambit of LGBT also sometimes widens up to include non-heterosexuals. A large population in India is homophobic. Being a part of the LGBT community is considered to be a sin for them.…

  • Decriminalisation of Suicide

    By Riya Singh, New Law College, BVP, Pune. Suicide has been declared as a crime in many countries. Most of the western countries have already decriminalised individual suicides, calling it a defiant act. Hence, it is discouraged in every possible way. In countries like Rome and Japan it was seen as a kind of defiant…

  • Belief versus Knowledge

    “I think that anyone who has taken the trouble to examine his, or her, own mind in regard to their worldly knowledge on any matter, will agree that this knowledge is entirely based on experience, but when we turn our attention to religion we immediately feel either that actual knowledge is lacking or that it…

  • Faith, Taste and History by Aldous Huxley

    “…a church once condemned by the Supreme Court as an organized rebellion, but now a monolith of respectability; a passionately loyal membership distinguished, even in these middle years of the twentieth century, by the old-fashioned Protestant and pioneering virtues of self-reliance and mutual aid—together, these make up a tale which no self-respecting reader even of…