Abstract Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” serves as a profound exploration of due process and its psychological impact on the individual. This essay examines how Kafka’s surreal narrative reshapes our understanding of legal systems and their societal implications. Through the lens of Josef K.’s nightmarish journey, we analyse the novel’s distorted legal landscape, contrasting it with […]
Abstract This essay explores the intricate interplay between law, ethics, and the literary imagination, urging a re-examination of the boundaries that traditionally separate these fields. By engaging with seminal works such as The Merchant of Venice, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the cinematic portrayal of Veerappan, the essay interrogates how fictional narratives manipulate legal principles
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ABSTRACT This essay considers the overlap between Islamic perspectives on LGBTQ+ issues and the moral quandaries depicted in legal literary fiction. Concerning the beautiful narratives in both religious doctrine and fictional legal thrillers, my essay explores how Islamic teachings – assigned moral authority by law enforcement powers have long prohibited non-heteronormative pair-bonded relationships produce a
In this second part of the conversation, Parmesh talks about addressing casteism in Indian corporate spaces, possibilities of bottom-up change in corporations, queer futures and takes questions from the audience. ND: Ok, so I want to pick up on two threads you have already spoken about :you mentioned there was this challenge of bringing
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Parmesh Shahani’s career spans the fields of academia, media and the corporate world. His first book Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India presents a fascinating archive of queer living in the city in the early 2000s. His second book Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace, published in 2020, received the CK
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In 2014, almost eight decades after it was originally written, Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste found itself at the centre of yet another raging controversy. This time, it had to do with an introduction to the essay penned by the author and social activist Arundhati Roy titled ‘The Doctor and the Saint’ for Navayana Publishers.
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(Excerpted with Permission from Dr. Aakash Singh Rathore’s Ambedkar’s Preamble: A Secret History of the Constitution of India). Need ‘Never Greater than Now’ On 21 February 1948, Dr Ambedkar packed up the working draft Constitution created by the Drafting Committee since it first met on 30 August 1947. Sending the completed draft to the president of the
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The study of social life, changes and causes – sociology looks at human behavior and interaction. Law and sociology are closely related since law governs human society and sociology accesses our reaction to such governance. Sociology allows the law to understand human patterns and legislate accordingly. From family to crime, and gender to social class,
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Psychology plays an important part in regulating behaviour – which is most of what law does. Law needs to deal with and understand human society, remediate wrongs that have been committed, and regulate individual behaviour in society. However, to what extent this regulation should take place is predominantly the area of philosophy – so please
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Political science is a social science that primarily engages with the theory and practice of political activities, institutions, thoughts, and behavior in and around government systems. Law establishes, maintains, influences, and is influenced by the various government systems, and consequently engages deeply with political science. They together study various interesting areas of research that largely
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The discipline of philosophy has been central to intellectual discourses throughout ages. All of history testifies to the fact that we humans have continually tried to make sense of our lives and surroundings as well as universal phenomena using our faculties of perception. What this tells us about philosophy as a discipline is that it
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There is significant interaction between the study of economics and with law and policy formation. While private law aids individuals and groups willing to enter into free market agreements, public law seeks to correct the shortcomings of a free market system through economic and social regulation. Law and Economics attempts to explain the decisions of legislators,
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