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NEW EDUCATION POLICY: A CRITICIAL ANALYSIS

    INTRODUCTION   India will have the highest youth population in the word in the upcoming decade and it is a shared responsibility of the government in order to provide contemporary educational opportunities to the students in order to shape the future of the country. This can be done only if the education policy targets the idea of universal access to quality education which will be a key to social and economic justice. There is a rapid change going on in the world in terms of the knowledge landscape. We have observed that how our work force has moved from manual stages to machines, and now the whole world is trying to move to the next step being the Artificial intelligence. This will increase the need of skilled workforce with the knowledge of data science, mathematics and computer science in conjunction with multi-disciplinary abilities across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. It is very important that the approach of the education system should mak...
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Need for Uniform Civil Code in India

                                                I.                           Introduction   Uniform civil code in a layman’s language means one country one law. The term civil code refers to various laws that are covered under the ambit of personal relations. Laws such as, law of contracts, property, marriage etc. Even prior to the implementation of the constitution, Bharat has always had a Uniform Criminal Code, which is accepted across the country with certain exceptions. Even with respect to a Uniform Civil Code we have uniformity in various aspects of civil laws such as Law of Contracts, Transfer of Property Act, and even the Civil Procedure Code. Personal laws however are exempted from the scrutiny of equality and of uniform...
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Blasphemy Law in India: An Overview

    “ Freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of the political truth.” - Justice Louis Brandeis I.                  Historical background of Section 295A of IPC in India. India has always been a Hindu (cultural sense) majority nation and a birthplace of various Indic faiths, and hence the concept of ‘Blasphemy’ has never existed as it exists in Semitic Abrahamic faiths. The concept such as apostasy, disbelievers or unbelievers has never been prevalent in Indian society as there is no one common god or one common set of belief systems. This land has always been very inclusive and has given the liberty to individuals, to follow or to not follow ‘Dharma’, or to believe or to not believe in god. To force someone to believe something or to not believe something has never been the history of this civilization, except the period ...
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