It was a delight to attend a very informative talk on the legal aid and the criminal justice system at the Bangalore International Centre , last Thursday. The panellists were eminent leaders in the domain, both nationally and locally in Bangalore; Justice (Retd.) Madan B Lokur , Prof. Vijay Raghavan, Aarti Mundkur, Dr. Anup Surendranath and Monica Sakhrani. Scroll down to the Too Long; Didn't Read (TL;DR) section if you're short on time, to get a gist of the article. It includes my personal opinions too, so don't give it a skip even if you read the entire article! The talk began with Justice Lokur explaining his concerns with the access and quality of legal aid provided to under-trials. He said that often, prisoners do not even know the status of their case because of the weak communication between legal aid lawyers and the under-trial. A report highlighting such problems that was submitted to the SC by Dr. Anup and his team has not been addressed and the debate
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A bunch of my classmates and I travelled to Sweden between the 8th and the 18th of September on a short student exchange program. We attended the Rudbeck Gymnasium in Sollentuna, roughly half an hour away from Stockholm city. The program was an amazing learning curve which showed us insights into Swedish culture and their way of life that most of us agreed was different in many aspects. Fika My love for food knows no bounds. Being a passionate chef in my free time and a self-proclaimed food connoisseur, fika (a traditional Swedish coffee break) was something that I enjoyed. A traditional fika involves extremely strong coffee (generally black), cinnamon rolls and other mouth-watering food. Fika can be practised at any time of the day; during a meeting (which is when we had our first fika), at the train station just before boarding a train, after a long day at work or as an excuse to meet up with a friend. Along with fika, lagom is observed. Lagom is the practise that ensures t
Depending on who is reading this article, you may or may not know that I have been investing my money since 2015 when I was just 13 years old. The concept of money growing in value by doing minimum or no work at all intrigued me and led me to learning about the various ways to invest money. Having been in this business for the last four years, I will try and 'advise' you in a way that will convince you to invest in the right way. This article is not going to advise you to invest a certain portion of your income or invest in a stock(s) or anything else that you will probably be able to read elsewhere online. Instead, this article, and the ones to follow will give you my learning experiences that I think may help a new investor. You may or may not agree either because you are in denial of reality or you may not have faced a particular challenge but I recommend that you give these tips a read and let me know what you think! Tip #1 Direct Equity - is it really for you? Most o
Those of you who live in Bangalore, especially in places such as Indiranagar, Koramangala and Whitefield may have noticed different looking and noiseless blue scooters whizzing past you as you are stuck in traffic. These new scooters that can be hired through a mobile app called Yulu are used by all age groups. Currently, a majority of people (including me) use it for joyrides rather than optimizing their travel. For those of you who still have no idea, refer to the picture above! These electric scooters that are provided by Yulu are known as 'Miracles' and can be hired per 10 minutes through their app that can be downloaded on the Play Store as well as the App Store . Having clocked at least 15 hours on these exciting new scooters in the past few weeks, I have many stories to tell. Although there is more awareness about these scooters today, as close as three weeks ago, barely anyone had any idea about it. Riding these scooters were fun and the closest I coul
The 2019 Election is turning out to be a close competition between two old rivals - the BJP and the Congress, with the former most probably having their Prime Ministerial candidate as Narendra Modi and the latter, Rahul Gandhi; one, a staunch Hindu nationalist who displays fascist like tendencies and the other who attempts to find a distinction between INR 6,000 a year and INR 500 a month. Let's go back five years to 2014 when elections were looming around the corner. I was not as invested into politics as I am now but I remember every second person telling me that they would be voting for the BJP, purely for the charismatic leader, Narendra Modi, who had promised to revolutionalise India on modern grounds. I was not wrong. The BJP won 55% of the seats. Fast forward to today and every other person is not praising Modi and talking about re-electing him, at least publicly. However, everyone is at a quandry whether or not to vote for someone who has done a certain amount o