In 1909, AMT Jackson, the collector of Nashik, was invited by the locals to attend a drama organized by them as their gratitude for his transfer from Nasik. This drama was the famous Maratha play “Sangeet Sharada,” which was highly instrumental in inspiring the passage of the Child Marriage Restraint…

INTERNATIONAL TAX TREATIES, POST-COLONIAL COUNTRIES, AND THE CONTINUING POWER IMBALANCE “the use of tax treaty networks to reduce tax payments…is a major issue for many developing countries, which would be well advised to sign treaties only with considerable caution.” BACKGROUND Nyasaland was under the governorship of Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby, the…

Correspondence between Pranav Tanwar and Ayan Gupta (students at National Law University — Delhi) Dear Ayan, This is a brief of a piece that I have written earlier but wanted to develop further by entering into a correspondence with you. For centuries, the idea of control and laissez-faire has been at the…

When the American music composer Arnold Rosner used the evergreen four-point motif for his opus 97, “ The Parable of the law”, it was not the first time that this cornerstone of the western music was used to convey an idea of defiance or resistance. Though additionally here, these notes…

India continues to witness the world’s largest nation-wide lockdown since Prime Minister Modi’s televised speech on March 24th, 2020. The time given to a country of over 1.3. billion people to prepare for a 21 days lockdown was merely 4 hours. On 17th May, the Indian government extended the lockdown…

As the cases of Coronavirus Disease — 2019 (2019-nCov) are continuously increasing in India, the Cabinet Secretary on March 11 decided to invoke the Epidemic Disease Act, 1897 and advised via the Ministry of Health Welfare to all the states and union territories to invoke the same. The state of…

In a session organised by the Guardian in 2015 on the increasing influence of money in English Football, Duncan Drasdo, CEO of the Manchester United Supporters Trust commented, “The growth in revenue has attracted the wrong kind of owners, particularly those looking to use clubs as a cash cow”. …

….How can we live together in peace, prosperity, and harmony, while retaining our liberties as autonomous individuals who can, and must, create our own values? James M. Buchanan Jr., 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Economics for theory of “The Constitution of Economic Policy” The last month Chilean protest over its…