Experts consider Sebi's takeover code in its present form to be on a par with any foreign code governing public mergers and acquisitions.
The relative ranking of castes can vary across regions and localities and depends on a number of factors including control over land, wealth, and political power. Castes have often tried to 'upgrade' themselves (a process sociologists refer to as Sanskritization), and sometimes get 'downgraded'. A revealing excerpt from Upinder Singh's Ancient India: Culture Of Contradictions.
From Kudankulam to the Land Bill, the author takes the Twitter route to capture the infra action of 2013.
Sandeep Pandey salutes women who have contributed to social transformation in India after 1980.
'Gau rakshak groups are beating Dalits and circulating videos on social media because they know that no one will touch them.'
Under siege, Nitish plans to tweak Bihar's anti-booze law
The proposed changes to the child labour law to allow children and adolescents to work for their families would be most retrograde and regressive, say Shinzani Jain and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.
'Little about this regime, given its vindictive credo, is a complete surprise. But we were still taken aback by the CBI raid as it was a complete abuse of due process.' 'These are not legal inquiries, but abusive use of State power. They are not legitimate investigations, but a witch-hunt.' 'Ours is a typical, classic case of the State and its organs being used as an outlet for motivated vendetta of the vilest kind.'
Few top honchos of India Inc did very well in 2014.
