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20 years on, revisiting the Uphaar Tragedy – How the System failed its people
(Prakash Singh/ Hindustan Times File photo) The Uphaar cinema tragedy that took place on June 13, 1997, claiming the lives of 59 people and injuring over 100 was one of…
Interview with Team Periferry-Providers Of Equal Employment Opportunities To Transgenders
PeriFerry is an equal opportunity job consultants for Trans person; that is PeriFerry provide alternative job solutions for them. Accessing the untapped talent pool, and bridging the gap between an…
Through the Lens of a Lawyer – Interview with Rajdip Ray, Filmmaker & IPR Attorney
Sourya: How do you generally introduce yourself to people who don’t know you? A lawyer, a filmmaker, or both? Rajdip Ray: A factotum. I was working as an IPR lawyer…
Interview with Vandita Morarka: Policy & Legal Officer, Safecity & Founder PenPal Inc.
Q) The most obvious question first, did you choose law or did it choose you? I can truly say Law chose me. I have single-mindedly wanted to pursue Law in…
Climate Change, Resilience & Our Cities
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines resilience as an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. So what do cities – those commercial and teeming urban sprawls –…
The Leak we haven’t fixed: The Essar Scandal
The Essar leaks include e-mails, office memos, telephone conversations and other records allegedly leaked from the systems of the Indian business conglomerate Essar Group. Events leading to the Leak In 2015, a whistleblower approached lawyer-activist Prashant…
The Panama Pandemonium: The leak that shocked the World.
The Panama Papers are an unprecedented leak of files from the database of the world’s fourth biggest offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca.…
Sporting the Law: Conversation with Tejaswini Ranjan, Founder of Plawyered
Plawyered March Edition Cover Sourya Banerjee catches up with the immensely talented Tejaswini Ranjan. Tejaswini, a fourth year CNLU student, is the Founder and CEO of Plawyered, India's only student…
In The Service Of All: Interview of Keshav Datta, Co-Founder of Sarvahitey
Volunteers celebrating with local children from the slums of Delhi. Sourya Banerjee catches up with the Co-Founder of Sarvahitey, Keshav Datta, alumni of Amity Law School, Delhi. Sarvahitey is a…
Conflict Chronicles: The Forgotten Genocide of Namibia
When I first become aware of the genocide of the Herero and the Namaqua in Namibia a few months ago, I was stunned. I had up until…