Month: July 2022
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Can DVRs (Differential Voting Rights) save the Founders of Tech Startups?: A critical analysis on whether DVRs can be used as a tool to retain control by promoters
The news of Ashneer Grover’s resignation is being added to the list of celebrated promoters of tech startups who lost control over the very companies they founded. The list also includes Binny and Sachin Bansal of Flipkart. Whether or not the allegations against Ashneer are true, it is certain that founders of tech startups have…
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Summary and Critique of Martha C. Nussbaum’s ‘Poets as Judges: Judicial Rhetoric and The Literary Imagination’
Martha C. Nussbaum’s article primarily focuses on discussions on literary imagination and the pivotal role it plays in the interpretation of several novels such as Dickens’s Hard Times[1], E.M Forster’s Maurice[2], and Richard Wright’s novel, Native Son[3]. Furthermore, it discusses how literary works have the potential to mold judges who display empathy as well as…
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Are criminals rational decision-makers or driven by uncontrolled emotional and psychological drives
Introduction Some individuals commit crimes because they experience intense emotions and believe that committing a crime would assist ease their suffering or make them joyous. Some individuals commit heinous crimes due to psychological disorders that motivate them to do so. Their reasoning may be distorted when they decide to do the crime, but when they…
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Marking of Exhibits and How to Deal with the Objections (Part-IV)
This is the fourth part of a multi-part article series by Harshit Sharma, Rajasthan Judicial Service. Read the previous parts here, here, and here. This is the last part of my multi-part article series in which I will try to conclude whatever little knowledge I have gained on the subject by doing research. In the…
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Marking of Exhibits and How to Deal with the Objections (Part-III)
This is the third part of a multi-part article series by Harshit Sharma, Rajasthan Judicial Service. Read the previous two parts here and here. In the second part of the article series, we have seen the kind of objections that fall into the procedural domain and how the court has to deal with them. Moving…
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Marking of Exhibits and How to Deal with the Objections (Part-II)
This is the second part of a multi-part article series by Harshit Sharma, Rajasthan Judicial Service. Read the first part here. After going through the first part of the article series, it will be very clear to the readers as to what are exhibits and how they are marked. Now our focus will be on…
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