Year: 2015
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Crime and Gender: Arguments for Gender Neutral Laws regarding Sexual Offences
By Soumyaditya Dasgupta, WBNUJS. Crime is considered to be a ‘gendered’ phenomenon. Criminal offenders tend to be mostly men. The number of female offenders are far fewer than that of male offenders[1]. So does it mean that females do not commit crimes? Or the number of crimes committed by women are less reported? Or are…
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Globalization and McDonaldization of Society
By Soumyaditya Dasgupta, WBNUJS. Globalization is a very recently coined term in human history. It is characterized by the advent of global corporations & institutions which operate in multiple nations as if there are no real boundaries between them and the intermixing of different cultures, leading to a common global identity & Consciousness. In 2000,…
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The Psychology of Advertising: Analysing the Tata Tea Ad on Corruption
By Sandhya Shyamsundar, WBNUJS, Kolkata. We gather information through our senses. We get knowledge of our external world with the order of Sensation- attention- perception. Since our information processing is limited, our attention is selective, divisible and shiftable. The main purpose of an advertiser is to catch the attention of the targeted audience in a…
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Review: ‘My Name is Mary Sutter’ by Robin Oliveira
By Sandhya Shyamsundar, WBNUJS, Kolkata This riveting saga takes place in New York, during the American Civil War in 1861. Enter Mary Sutter, much respected, remarkable and adept midwife who’s sole intent is to become a surgeon and to prove equal to any man. But sadly, medical schools refuse to teach women and repeatedly turn…
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Review: “The Story of India” by Michael Wood
By Sandhya Shyamsundar, WBNUJS, Kolkata. It is only seldom when one gets to see a documentary series which is visually so extravagant, narrated with such depth and one that almost covers the entire historical saga of a country that has withstood the ravages of time. Michael Wood’s ‘The Story of India’ is a BBC TV…
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Resolve for Resilience: The Paris Pact on Water and Climate Change Adaptation
By Tanya Chandra, Executive Director, LQF While the tussle between the developed and the developing world continues to impede any concrete resolutions on the issue of climate change, the 21st Conference of Parties (COP) at Paris, witnessed the adoption of The Pact on Water and Climate Change Adaptation.
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National Judicial Reference System: An Overview
By Sonal Srivastava, Amity Law School, Lucknow. National Judicial Reference System is a pioneering project of the Income Tax Department to streamline its tax litigation system. The project aims at being the comprehensive repository to all Appeals and Judgements related to Direct Taxes in India. It envisages in bringing automation in the working of the judicial wings…
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A Commentary on the Biography ‘Cornelia Sorabjee: India’s Pioneer Woman Lawyer’
By Sandhya Shyamsundar, WBNUJS, Kolkata. On reading the biography ‘Cornelia Sorabjee: India’s Pioneer Woman Lawyer‘, one is bound to fall in love with Suparna Gooptu’s take on the legal luminary Cornelia Sorabji who was the first woman to study law in Oxford and, India’s second woman advocate. Cornelia, though being a pioneer in multiple ways at…
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India-Belgium MoU on Energy: Joining Hands for a Greener Environment
By Shalvi Singh, WBNUJS, Kolkata. The diplomatic relations between India and Belgium were established in 1948. Of late, Belgium has acknowledged the importance of India’s global role in economic spheres. In the past, both the countries had co-operated in the field of trade, investment and education. The Union Cabinet on 5th November 2015, approved a Memorandum of…
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From Sacrament to Contract – The Changing Nature of Hindu Marriages in India
By Sandhya Shyamsundar, WBNUJS, Kolkata. Marriage has been, since the ancient times, one of the most important social institutions. It implies the union of man and woman in body and soul. Sociologists have offered various definitions of marriage, among them being Malinowski’s i.e ‘a contract for the production and maintenance of children’ whereas according to Robert…