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The Culture Of Unregulated Work Hours- An Exclusionary Practice
Often individuals employed in the legal industry complain of long and unregulated work hours. For most young lawyers living alone or for those who cannot afford the help, unregulated work hours mean that self-care, shopping for groceries, taking care of the home, family and food must be squeezed into barely any remaining time. This also severely affects the mental health of several individuals engaged in the legal profession. Time spent working in the office is not the only time that must be...
Hindi As National Language Of India : Decoding The Myth
India is a land of diversity comprising of individuals from different communities, backgrounds, religions etc. What one eats, how one speaks, differs from region to region. In this diversity, we Indians often look for symbols and objects that unite us. The national anthem, national animal, national song, national flower are pertinent examples. It is famously said, that in India language changes every few kilometres just like the water. Therefore, unlike the other national symbols the...
Supreme Wisdom: Wolf To Guard Sheep
In apparently a laudable and bold move headlines that 'SC will depute CBI, police officials to curb graft in registry' greet us. The Chief Justice of India has decided to draft in Senior Superintendents of Police and Superintendents of Police from Delhi Police and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to keep an eye on the Supreme Court staff and check corruption. The police officers are to be on deputation and are to be appointed as Additional Registrars, Deputy Registrars, Branch Officers...
One Nation One Vote, Towards A Unitary Form Of Govt ?
Elections are a mechanism to hold the government accountable. They are viewed as means to ensure that the citizens' interests are properly represented in the democratic process. The Constitution of India mandates direct elections at the end of a term of 5 years at both State and National level. Speaking in the Parliament, the Prime Minister proposed a plan for one nation, one poll. In the popular sense 'simultaneous elections' entail synchronised elections to all the tiers of the...
The Sea As Rising Witness :The Socio-Legal Debate On The Coastal Road In Mumbai
It remains to be seen how the CJ's pro-environment observations translate into the judgment and how he and his colleague will view the contentious project and its description/dominant purpose as a "road", that can escape the stipulated procedure under the EIA notification of 2006.
In Indian Lynchings, Law Is An Accomplice
"And then they had me, stripped me, battering my teeth into my throat till I swallowed my own blood. My voice was drowned in the roar of their voices, and my black wet body slipped and rolled in their hands as they bound me to the sapling."- Afro-American poet Richard Wright,in his poem Between the World and Me, thus portrayed the macabre of the lynchings that took place in America against the coloured people in late 1800s and early 1900s. The Emancipation Proclamation of...
Simultaneous Elections: Distorting Accountable Democracy And Federalism
"Our Constitution must not be a dictatorship but must be a Constitution in which there is a parliamentary democracy, where Government is all the time on the anvil so to say, on its trial responsible to the people, responsible to the judiciary, then I have no hesitation in saying, that the principles emboded in the Constitution are as good as, if not better than the principles emboded in any other Constitution."Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Constituent Assembly Debates 17 September 1949 In the middle...
Authoritarian Mindset Against RTI: Will CIC Break The Iron Walls Of CEC?
It's a coincidence that the CEC's rejection of RTI request for disclosure of dissent came on the 44th Emergency Day in violation of the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India. Prime Minister Modi rightly rescinded Emergency saying that because of people's rejection of that regime the country's "democratic ethos prevailed over an authoritarian mindset". The authoritarian mindset of public authorities, now CEC, is prevailing...
