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That Summer of ’69: Remembering Stonewall
On June 28, 1969, at New York’s Greenwich village something extraordinary happened. Police raided a gay bar to arrest members of the LGBT Community. But that night, the patrons of…
Hard and Soft Powers of Indian Diplomacy: Revisiting Maldives & Seychelles
“Power is also like love, easier to experience than to define or measure, but no less real for that.” ~ Joseph S. Nye Jr., Soft Power: The Means To Success In World…
The CLATaclysm of a Legal Exam
The legal educational examinations in the territory of India have always been marred by controversy and the quintessential deficiency of all elements you would associate with a modern welfare state.…
Taxing Times: Leaving India to Commence a Business/Take up Employment in an overseas location
Introduction The Central Board of Direct Taxes (hereinafter 'CBDT') has set up a five-member working group led by a joint secretary-rank official and four revenue officers to look into the taxation…
CLAT Exam messes up again! Puts careers of thousands of students at risk!
On May 13, 2018, an unprecedented 59,000 students wrote the Common Law Admission Test, the national law entrance examination. The number of law aspirants in India has been rising spectacularly…
Crimes from Colonial Hangover: Marital Rape
“We take the view that the time has now arrived when the law should declare that a rapist remains a rapist subject to the criminal law, irrespective of his relationship…
7 Points to reclaiming Mother Earth
As April ends and summer tightens its grip on the Northern Hemisphere, we put behind us the observation of Earth Day, an annual event since 1970 celebrated now in over…
Breaking: House of Lords defeats government plans to scrap EU rights charter after Brexit
London, UK: The UK Government has suffered another embarrassing defeat on its flagship Brexit bill in the House of Lords after peers voted to keep a key EU human rights charter as part of…
The CBSE Paper Leak Fiasco 2018; An Education System without proper Education or secure System
An official circular (left) was published by the Central Board of Secondary Education (“CBSE”) regarding the paper leaks of the on-going AISSCE (“All India Senior School Certificate Examination”). The circular stated…
The Fact, the Law, & the Changing Privacy Policies of the Narendra Modi Application
The Backstory A supposedly French security researcher, you uses the Twitter name Elliot Anderson (@fs0c131y), and has till now riddled many holes into the claims of Aadhaar infrastructure being unbreakable…