Category: Blog
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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: “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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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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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…
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Networking the Networks: Disencumbering Money Laundering?
By Sonal Srivastava, Amity Law School, Lucknow. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated the three day conference on “Networking the Networks” on November 2, 2015 in the capital city of India- New Delhi. Among the key participants were the representatives of top international groups including Interpol, the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units, Financial Action Task Force,…
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Dharma and Gandhian Philosophy of Satyagraha
By Sandhya Shyamsundar, WBNUJS, Kolkata. Bhishma, in the Mahabharata, states that Dharma changes according to the needs of time and hence develops with society. However, it has certain permanent moral values like truth, compassion, self control and forgiveness which continue to exist. It is in this context that Dharma and its three branches hold relevance in…
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Right to Information: An Analysis
By Shalvi Singh, WBNUJS, Kolkata. The Right to Information Act (RTI) came into force on 12th October, 2005. It replaced the erstwhile Freedom of Information Act, 2002. The Act was passed to “set out the practical regime of right to information for citizens in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority.”…
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Need For Sentencing Policy in India
By Dipti Khatri, UPES, Dehradun. “Sentencing” is the final stage of delivering Justice to the convict and victim. In India, punishment is given according to own applied thoughts of Judges and within statutory limit. For some offences, the maximum punishment is prescribed and for some, it is minimum. In some cases, Judges lower down the punishment using…