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An American ball game is making a big hit in India, quite literally Indians love pickles. And their yen for such types of relish is gaining an entirely new meaning in the form of a ball game that’s become a big hit in America in more ways than one and is now doing the same…

The issue of consumer disputes being referred to arbitration, known as consumer arbitration, has been a contentious aspect of Indian law. Judicial precedents have led to a situation where consumers must navigate two jurisdictions: consumer forums and arbitral tribunals, as both retain authority when arbitration clauses are present. Indian courts have struggled to find a…

A recent lament on social media was that the NCERT had removed a lesson on the French Revolution from the Class IX social science textbook. It subsequently transpired that the lesson had merely migrated from Class IX to Class X. The episode merely illustrated, yet again, that social media can be both an instrument of…

The world is on sensory overload. Pro Max. On steroids. So much so that, at times, it feels as though our brains are fried—buzzing with the constant stimulation delivered by a single gadget: our phones. AI is a willing collaborator. Ask it a question and you’ll get a million answers. (No guarantees about their accuracy,…

I first sailed to Andaman and Nicobar islands in 1983 on board landing craft INS Ghorpad as an under trainee ‘watch keeping officer’ . This training period is the most essential and critical part of an ‘executive cadet’ in order to earn the ‘watch keeping certificate’ to qualify to keep independent ‘watches’ in harbour and…

Somewhere between your first salary and your first involuntary “ooowww” while rising from the sofa, you make a  choice. Most people never notice they’re making it, which is precisely the point. You get to decide what kind of  person you want to be when you grow up, and contrary to the greeting-card version, that decision…

Neymar beat his chest and pointed to the badge. Brazil had just conceded the second goal, the game was lost, and the player who had defined Brazilian football for a generation was arguing with a goalkeeper rather than chasing a miracle. It was the image of an era ending — not gracefully, not on his…

Neymar beat his chest and pointed to the badge. Brazil had just conceded the second goal, the game was lost, and the player who had defined Brazilian football for a generation was arguing with a goalkeeper rather than chasing a miracle. It was the image of an era ending — not gracefully, not on his…

The 10th Anniversary of the PCA Award (2016) is not merely a legal landmark; it is a stark reminder of the mounting cost of its non-implementation. The failure to enforce the Award imposed enormous strategic and economic costs while emboldening China’s grey-zone coercion. Although its economic costs cannot be measured with mathematical precision, there is…

The earthquake that hit Venezuela, a country that sits at the northern end of South America, has also been making headlines due to a controversial and undemocratic shift in its government leadership. While the political turmoil has drawn significant attention, this new seismic event has captured the public’s focus for entirely different reasons, warranting a…