Month: May 2021
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Presumption under the Indian Evidence Law: A Critical Relook
The operation of presumptions is a wide, as well as an intricate, matter to study despite there being no dearth of academic study on it. Its application and consequences are equally humongous, not to mention the impact on the burden of proof. Having said that, presumption is of various types. Application of each type of…
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The Influence of Bollywood on Women’s Rights
Indian Cinema is the best platform to analyse and assess women rights. The reason is that Indian Cinema reflects Indian society in the most exaggerated way. People get more fascinated with the more relatable cinema. The various dilemmas arise when we try to understand women’s role in Bollywood. The dilemma about whether the inclusion of…
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SPACs: A Backdoor Lifeline for Indian M&A
In the year 2020, the US saw a huge surge in Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) activities amounting to $83 billion raised from 247 SPACs, which is 50% of the capital that all the initial public offerings (IPOs) raised in the year. This was followed by a record-breaking 189 SPAC IPOs being announced in just…
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Ordinance Criminalising Conversion for Marriage: A Debacle for India
Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India, has recently promulgated The Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, which requires religious conversion to be scrutinised and certified by the state. Conversion to a different faith without the approval of the State will now be a criminal offence. The objective of the Ordinance is to act…
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COVID 19: Pandemic or Panacea?
I sat on my window overlooking deewaano ki Galli, in Dilwalon ki Dilli as my Dada teases me, “Big city girl” he calls me every time I visit him in the hills, Romanticism has often been eve- teasing here as Mother keeps repeating, It doesn’t bother me because I get to eat gol gappe in…
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