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God and Demon: Antagonist to the Buddha
No full textIt is a book review of MALLEABLE MĀRA: TRANSFORMATIONS OF A BUDDHIST SYMBOL OF EVIL by Michael D. Nichols. I argue that by foregrounding Māra—the typical symbol of evil in the Buddhist tradition—Michael D. Nichols not only reconstructs the evolving representations of this figure but also, in doing so, offers a compelling narrative of the broader historical and ideological trajectories of Buddhism itself
Does Employment and Autonomy Influence Safe Menstrual Hygiene in India?
No full textMenstrual Hygiene is often considered vital for formulating public health policies in developing economies like India, because the overall wellbeing and social development of women could remarkably be compromised due to poor menstrual hygiene. This motivates us to analyse vital factors determining menstrual hygiene with an intent to suggest health policies related to menstrual hygiene.The study finds that unemployed women practice better menstrual hygiene compared to the employed ones. Furthermore, the role of employment is found to be significant only if a woman possesses autonomy, reflecting the complementarity between impact of autonomy and employment. Additionally, given that a woman is employed, those working in non-agriculture sector are found to demonstrate safe hygiene practices.The study finds that women working in agriculture have poor menstrual hygiene compared to both unemployed women and those working in non-agricultural sector. This suggests better sanitation infrastructure at farms. Also, if sanitation facilities are made available to women their impact on menstrual hygiene depends on their autonomy status. Thus, policies pertaining to enhance sanitation facilities must accord with autonomy status of women
Fame’s flip side: Can celebrities protect their personalities?
No full textIt’s moderately clear to the general public that there’s something wrong with people exploiting celebrities for their own ends
Reforming the Indian Bar: The limits of technological solutions
No full textA majority of Indians do not have effective access to legal services, despite the constitutional promise of access to justice. There are two intertwined reasons for this: the unavailability of a sufficient number of good quality lawyers, and the high costs of accessing legal services. The Indian legal profession is highly unequal, with ‘prestige’ being the currency of upward professional mobility. The professional regulator, the Bar Council of India, simply lacks the capacity to regulate quality. As a consequence, clients lack the information to access lawyers, and to understand the outcomes they desire from them, and the fees they have to pay. Legal aid solutions are only able to cater to a fraction of these unmet legal needs. In this paper, we observe that in the absence of regulatory reform, the Indian state and private players are attempting to use technology to address this capacity problem. The Supreme Court’s e-Courts project promised to transform the system through information technology enablement of courts, while the private legal tech sector has designed several solutions, including lawyer matching platforms for delivery of legal services. However, the success of the e-courts project remains mixed at best, with the litigant remaining underserved, and private sector solutions have failed to reach scale due to regulatory uncertainty and their inability to build trust. The paper argues that technological solutions as currently designed are useful in fixing process-specific issues, but are inadequate to address the more fundamental problem of misaligned incentives and deep-rooted regulatory design flaws of the Indian legal profession, which require much broader scale reform
Indian Constitutional Law
No full textM P Jain ’s Indian Constitutional Law is an authoritative and, classic treatise on Indian constitutional law. This book, presently in its Ninth edition, is a thematic presentation of the complex and multi-dimensional discipline of Indian Constitutional law in a lucid, comprehensive and systematic manner. This edition delves into both the initial applications and modern interpretations of the Constitution of India. The book also takes note of the rich stream of contemporary jurisprudence with focus on areas like disability rights, intersectionality, and indirect discrimination, as well as evolving constitutional principles like Fiscal federalism, transformative constitutionalism and constitutional morality. It is an important reference for the Bench and the Bar; students and teachers; public intellectuals and media folks; bureaucrats and Politicians; and social movement entrepreneurs alike.https://repository.nls.ac.in/books/1053/thumbnail.jp
Board Decision-Making and Stakeholder Protection
No full textThe article deals with CSR regulation from a company law perspective. It considers mechanisms for better protection of stakeholder interests in the context of both hard and soft law, by evaluating the extant frameworks in the UK and India. The lack of proper consideration of stakeholder interests in companies’ decision-making processes emphasises the need to secure accountability for stakeholders. Unequal access to information and a lack of mechanisms for participation in board decision-making means that stakeholders do not have the same opportunity as shareholders to influence board decisions. Therefore, the principal question is how to regulate CSR to protect stakeholder interests and compel companies to behave ethically and responsibly
Imperfect Alternatives: Economic Evidence in the Indian Regulatory Landscape, a Review of Courts, Regulators, and the Scrutiny of Economic Evidence: Comparative Perspectives by Despoina Mantzari
No full textAntitrust Concerns vis-a-vis Disruptive Innovation – Takeaways for Competition Commission of India
No full textIn the era of innovation, market dynamics have evolved demanding a more nuanced analysis of market competition. Innovation in digital economy does promise new products and services but it can be an amiable reality only if it is directed towards ensuring consumer welfare and a free markets space for players. Since digital markets attract innovators and disruptors, it is important for antitrust regulators to differentiate between efforts directed towards value-creation and ones aimed at destroying or impeding the same. This paper aims at theorizing around the idea of ‘disruptive innovation’ and its implications for competition policy for India. The paper while acknowledging the pro-competitive benefits of disruptive innovation, elaborates on the fact that incumbents or potential players may in some situations clothe a business strategy as ‘disruptive’ in order to evade anti-trust scrutiny. Further, practices such as rent-seeking or killer acquisitions may be adopted in order to create barriers for new players or for driving out existing players which have a strong potential of disrupting the market by offering new products or services and thereby creating a new demand, altogether. Considering the fact that an antirust regulator in such situations needs to avoid false positives and false negatives while also ensuring continued innovation, the paper deliberates upon the need to evolve fundamental strategies for antitrust assessment. Reliance has been placed upon the developments in other jurisdictions such as the European Union and United States in order to identify certain key takeaways for the Competition Commission of India (‘CCI’). While CCI in the recent past has made tremendous efforts in evolving its assessment to better suit digital markets, certain fundamental understandings around which an assessment revolves also demand evolution. In this light, the paper intends to provide some level of guidance to assess complex situations demanding antitrust assessment in a manner that should not lead to chilling effects on innovation
Jis Kisi ke Mann Mein Asuraksha ka Bhav Hai, Woh Mahila Hai
No full textThe article discusses the fear and discomfort surrounding gender identity, as reflected in restrictive policies like those enacted by President Trump, which prioritise biological definitions over inclusivity. It advocates for open-ended, empathetic education as a means to confront societal vulnerabilities, using innovative methods to encourage exploration and understanding in polarised times
