Tag: Businessworld

Law And Living-in

By Ranjeev C DubeyFamily Law
Here’s a confusing contradiction for the connoisseur: Indian courts are very slow to decide anything at all, but they are exceedingly quick to evolve laws to respond to ever-changing social mores. The battle over the rights of homosexuals may not be the best example of this, but in most departments…

Reimagining India’s Legal System

By Ranjeev C DubeyCriminal Law
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they must stop to radically rethink their priorities. For nations, we call them inflection points, sometimes cultural transformations. For mature managers, we call them midlife crises! In every case, it’s about testing basic ideological assumptions about what we believe we want, or…

Striking Disservice

By Ranjeev C DubeyLegal Profession
For 5000 years, we have believed that the individual is defined, not by his rights, but by his duties. How this has transformed into an environment of rights and entitlements is quite the untold story. On most days of the week, the Supreme Court of India undoubtedly does very brave…

India’s Silenced Daughters

By Ranjeev C DubeyConstitutional Law
We may not have noticed but India seems to be having a Charlie Hebdo moment. Given the rioting in Rajpath in December 2012 following the horrific Nirbhaya Rape case, the Government has moved to pre-empt public outrage over Leslee Udwin’s documentary “India’s Daughter” by banning it. I dislike bans, be…

Home Truths About Home Comings

By Ranjeev C DubeyConstitutional Law
For ten vociferous years, strident Hindutva activists complained bitterly that their brothers were converting to other religions, mainly Christianity. Six states tried to stem this purported tide by legislating against religious conversion. With the change of political dispensation in Delhi last summer, those who complained about conversions commenced conniving with…

Uber Rubbish

By Ranjeev C DubeyCriminal Law
The tragic rape of a girl in an Uber cab triggered the usual tryst with unreality. The Delhi Government’s Transport Department immediately ‘banned’ internet cab aggregators- including Uber, Taxi-for-Sure and Ola- from operating in Delhi. Meanwhile, Delhi Police registered an FIR against Uber for misleading customers by falsely suggesting that…

Black Money Ballyhoo

By Ranjeev C DubeyCompany Law
Of all the doublespeak Indians have been sold at election time since we declared ourselves a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic, the elimination of corruption and black money has remained the all-time bestseller regardless of market sentiment. So why has this eternally winning formula never translated into any effective action…

Criminalising Corporate Restructuring

By Ranjeev C DubeyCompany Law
If you are one of those corporate consultants who advise clients on business restructuring, here is a piece of gratuitous advice: get out of it. It’s too dangerous. If you are a professional manager who has consented to sit on the board of a spun off business, or its holding…

Jailbird Republic

By Ranjeev C DubeyLitigation
It seems that the default way to enforce resolve disputes these days is to employ the services of swashbuckler Station House Officers and file criminal cases in order to intimidate or imprison those with whom you do not agree. The great tragedy of our democracy is not that 22.1 per…