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Uniform Civil Code and Adoption Laws: A Case Comment on Shabnam Hashmi v. Union of India
No full textA Socio-Policy Analysis on the Effectiveness of Judicial Remedies Available in the Cases of Illegal Demolition in India: State Policy vis-à-vis Human Rights
No full textAn Unusual Encounter With a Radical Kabir
No full textAnand\u27s \u27The Notbook of Kabir\u27 is an archive of music, a translation of verses and an attempt to forge connections between different traditions that critique the status quo
Goods and Service Tax on Online Skill Gaming: A Constitutional Perspective
No full textIn light of the rapid growth and the consequent regulatory focus on the taxing of online gaming in India, this paper discusses the CGST (Amendment) Act, 2023 and the amendment in CGST Rules that mark a shift from a Gross Gaming Revenue model to a turnover model of taxation and impose a uniform tax on games of skill and chance. It analyses the compatibility of this shift with our GST regime, undertakes a policy analysis of its economic desirability by drawing from the experiences of other jurisdictions, and challenges its constitutionality by showing that imposing an onerous burden that could lead to operators shutting down online skill gaming services, a protected trade under Article 19(1)(g), amounts to colourable legislation and violates the manifest arbitrariness doctrine under Article 14
Women at work: Beyond numbers
No full textTwo surveys compile data on rural women in paid work; it’s a necessary start but the approach could be sharper
Erased Pasts and the Politics of Space in Agartala
No full textStreet/place names are deeply embroiled in the struggle for identity in honouring or obscuring the history of a place and creating contesting geographies. Contemporary Agartala is laden with potent symbols of identity-based solidarity and shared political awareness that often continue to erase it indigenous past
Bihar SIR threatens the credibility of elections
No full textAny arbitrary disenfranchisement of voters in the upcoming Bihar Assembly Elections will cast a shadow over the sanctity of elections in India
Technical Diplomacy or Rendering Technical? Examining Triangular Cooperation in International Development
No full textThis article examines Triangular Cooperation, which is garnering popularity in the development sector and is purportedly devoid of the old hierarchies associated with international development. The article locates this emerging mode of cooperation in the context of discussions on decolonisation and turns attention to the need to update the registers used to critique international development. Through a critical discourse analysis of an array of project documents and a reflexive account of the author\u27s experiences in the aid sector, it explores the subtle forms of power that play out when ‘pivotal’, ‘beneficiary’ and ‘facilitating’ partners enter a project. The article argues that such an enquiry helps nuance our examination of old hierarchies in contemporary times. It thereby calls for renewed attention to Triangular Cooperation in critical development studies that is currently preoccupied with South–South Cooperation
Instrumentalizing the university: the principles underlying higher education regulation at India’s founding
No full textThe contemporary literature on Indian universities is rife with discontent about academic freedom. Apart from attacks within and outside the university on the production and dissemination of knowledge, the state has systematically undermined institutional autonomy using the University Grants Commission’s first-order regulatory powers. This literature has grounded the crisis of autonomy in developments post Narendra Modi’s election in 2014, particularly after his re-election in 2019. However, this article argues that the crisis should be situated in a context predating this regime. It can be traced to the instrumentalist conception of the functional role morality of a university that was entrenched in the constitutional and statutory scheme at the nation-state’s founding. This argument is made through an institutional discourse analysis of the thought of the political elite as revealed in the constitutional and legislative material associated with the creation of the University Grants Commission during the Nehruvian period
Legal education and the supreme court
No full textThe more things change, the more they remain the same. The aphorism captures the sentiment aptly when reading the Report of the Indian Universities Commission, 1902 today, particularly its section on legal education. It raises the question of how much has changed these past hundred years and more, and how much further we need to go in order to build a suitably relevant legal education environment suitable for India today. A look at the past also brings out why and how the role of the judges of the Supreme Court of India (SCI) as distinct from the role of the SCI became fairly central in legal education, and the important role judges and the Court continue to play in determining the future of legal education