Year: 2018
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The Conversation Junction
We often come across students and young law & policy professionals who are not familiar with the myriad opportunities which can help them design a desirable career path in their specific areas of interest. While some cannot determine the skills or inclinations that can leverage their career trajectory, others cannot zero down to one area…
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Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016: Domestic Law with a Religious Marker
By Qamar Ali Jafri, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. Here’s an interesting and crisp presentation on the much debated and talked about, Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016.
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From the Lens of Humiliating Stares and Jockstrap Jibes: The Laws Governing Prostitutes in India
By Adv. Shriya Maini. Co-Authored by Pooja Jasani, Gujarat National Law University. 2017 saw the release of an exciting Bollywood flick based on the contentious subject of sex workers in India and their argumentative profession of prostitution. Begum Jaan revolved around a group of prostitutes struggling for survival amidst humiliating stares and jockstrap jibes. The female…
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Institutions of Eminence in the age of Academic Hype
By Qamar Ali Jafri, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. Everyone dreams of studying in a premiere world institute. No country ever feels that it can do without a world-class university. Now, in the age of academic hype, who decides what is ‘world-class’ or ‘premiere’ or ‘flagship’ or for that matter, who decides upon the…
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Gandhi’s Harijans: The Misunderstood Sect
By Anmol Kaur Bawa, Symbiosis Law College, Pune. HARIJANS AND THEIR SOCIAL DISABILITIES: The term “harijan” is not Gandhi’s coinage. The name was suggested by several untouchable correspondents who contended the usage of the word “asprishya” meaning literally “untouchable” in the pages of “Navjivan”. Harijan means “man of god”. All the religions of the world…
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Dovetailing Livelihood with Literacy
By Annapurna Sinharay, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. Karl Marx vilified the education system as an instrument in the hands of the evil capitalists to train a pliant labour force. However, the widespread unemployment plaguing the country today has reduced the system to one of a much benign nature, hopefully to Marx’s liking. Among the many…
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Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana: A Suggestive Approach for Supported Motherhood
By Sanidhya Sadanand Nayak, Bangalore Institute of Legal Studies, Bengaluru. Not many in India discuss miscarriages, failed pregnancies or stillbirths, often blaming fate rather than broaching the matter diagnostically. The connection between the ill-health of the woman and the failure of pregnancy is hardly ever noticed, let alone acknowledged. In a country where more than half of…
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The Policy Troupe: Almora Deliberation
We are committed to facilitate the learning curve for all potential leaders and change-makers as far as policy awareness, formulation and assessment is concerned. The Policy Troupe, our residential policy innovation workshop, has therefore been designed to nurture and fuel your thoughts, and initiate you into the realm of public policy. How does it work?…
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Foreign Direct Investment: The Conundrum Explained
By Bhumesh Verma, Managing Partner, Corp Comm Legal. Foreign Direct Investment or FDI, as it is called in common parlance, has become the fuel which is essential to sustain and develop any country’s economy. Developing countries such as India, require significant and consistent infusion of foreign investments in their economy in order to maintain a…
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Understanding Cooperatives: Constitution (97th Amendment) Act, 2011
By Aashna Aggarwal, Delhi Metropolitan Education, IP University, Noida. The concept of co-operatives is not new to man. It actually dates back to man himself and today they are a universal form of organisation, which is found in almost all the countries.