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Exams are Like Festivals, Celebrate Them

The video of a senior official of the Delhi education department has raised the stress over exams. But with various initiatives by the centre to help students in pandemic times, exams can be faced with grit.

Four-day week, but when working 12 hours a day

Since the introduction of four labour codes, India’s concerted effort to promote flexible labour markets has been the subject of considerable debate.

Sedition: Supreme Court View

The sedition law, under which Gandhi and his freedom fighters were jailed, has been reviled and condemned as anachronistic and an imperialist hand-me-down. It has also been challenged in court. But it still flourishes.

What Will Jack Think

The job of teachers in the lives of their students can be profound. Like French philosopher Albert Camus, I too had kind, thoughtful and morally upright teachers whose influence guided me in my legal profession.

An Act of God, No Doubt, But Which One?

An admirable judgment from the Madras High Court relieved a trader from paying license fee during the lockdown and focuses on the “impossibility” of performance of the contract and sees it under the scanner of Article 14.

A New Net-scape: Digital Giants and Media Payments

A house of cards comprises slender pieces of paper precariously balanced atop others, all living together in flimsy points of contact that agreed to cement the whole with just love and fresh air.

Koo or No Koo: Personal Data Protection Bill is the answer

After foreign tweets on Indian developments led to controversy, the government has reacted to Twitter on Koo, a homegrown micro-blogging site. Having two platforms will cool down passions.

Extradition: A powerful tool, but handle with care

As diamond merchant Nirav Modi faces extradition from the UK on February 25, the fact is that India has not had much success in this sphere. With Vijay Mallya too facing extradition, the issue is a complex one.

Development Finance Institutions: Govt should learn from experience

While the centre’s plan to establish a Rs 20,000-crore DFI for infrastructure projects is an old idea, its success will depend on transparency and accountability and its engagement with stakeholders.

The New Media Battlefront

By Inderjit Badhwar Cyber guru Na Vijayashankar’s cover piece in this issue of India Legal (Twitter vs Govt of India: Curbing social media) entitled “Twitter War Unleashed” is perhaps a global hea...

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