Month: March 2017
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Women and the Law
The status of women has been subject to many radical changes in the past few decades. With decline in their status from ancient to medieval period to demand of equal rights by reformers, the history of women in India has indeed been eventful. In a sovereign civilized state, laws hold the primary position. Therefore it…
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A Need to Define Limits to Constitutional Change
Constitutional reform, progressively known as constitutional change[1] in recent times, is an act of the state that results in a change in the constitutional text of the nation. Undoubtedly, there is a dire need of regular changes to a constitution keeping in view the ever-dynamic nature of the law as well as society. Also, almost…
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Current Status of Surrogacy Laws in India
India is considered to be the commercial market for surrogacy. Surrogacy is the practice where another woman carries and gives birth to a baby for a couple who want to have a child. It might become necessary in case of absence or malformation of the womb of the lady, recurrent pregnancy loss, or repeated in…
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Beware of the Hacker!
A friend was pissed off recently because he was informed by others of unusual posts from his Facebook account. He had been offline for sometime only to be called back with abnormal activity happening on his wall. A rant from him partly read as follows, “Am sorry friends for all the posts on your walls…
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The Apetite Fight
In the year of 2015, there was a big controversy due to the sudden spurt of vigilantism in India; we decided to write about the issue of cow slaughtering, consumption, possession and transportation in India. Let me start this topic with a short story. Teacher- ‘what is the most expensive thing in this country?’ Boy-‘beef’…