Gary Frase and Sandeep Pandey | The Covid-19 pandemic has shut down the world, but it has also opened up new channels for festering truths to break free. In the United States, the murder by a policeman of George Floyd in Minneapolis has ignited pent-up anger against widespread racism and hatred of America’s police. In India, last year, a new “citizenship” law unleashed a rash of citizens’ protests, against the law in particular and the Bhartiya Janata Party-led government’s five years in power in general.
Treatment in Private Hospital on Public Money Possible but no Relief if Private Transport Used
Dr Sandeep Pandey, Surabhi Agarwal, Shobha Shukla, Bobby Ramakant | All the people who have had to pay earlier for their return to their homes either on government or private transportation should be given refunds. Likewise, all those who had to pay for COVID-19 testing in private laboratories should be given refunds.
The Condominium Solution
Abhay Jain and Sandeep Pandey | It is time to revisit a largely abandoned theory of boundary dispute resolution: The Condominium. A condominium in international law exists when two or more states exercise joint sovereignty over a territory. More specifically, a condominium exists when “two or more states together exercise joint sovereignty on the same territory, and such sovereignties mutually limit their activities, at least in principle, on the grounds of legal equality.”
A Question of Knowledge and Practice
Vidushi Prajapati, Ekta Tomar and Sandeep Pandey | The case of wrongful removal of Safai Karamcharis is a perfect example of the dual character of bourgeoisie spaces such as the law university where under the garb of being the upholder of egalitarian principles, it has time and again committed labour laws and human rights violations.
ज्ञान और अमल का प्रश्न
विदुषी, एकता तोमर, संदीप पांडेय | शैक्षिक समुदाय का क्या दायित्व बनता है, विशेष रूप से एक विधि विश्वविद्यालय में, जब विश्वविद्यालय की स्थापना के वर्ष, 2008 से कार्यरत सफाई कर्मचारियों को ठेका परिवर्तन के चलते निष्ठुरता से हटा दिया जाता है। विश्वविद्यालय अपने इस अमानवीय कार्य को सही ठहराने के लिए यह तर्क देता है कि चूँकि ये श्रमिक किसी ठेकेदार के आधीन काम कर रहे थे, इसलिए विश्वविद्यालय इनके प्रति जवाबदेह नहीं है। वह मजदूरों द्वारा लगायी गयी खून-पसीने की मेहनत को एक क्षण में भूल जाता है, मानों उनसे एकदम अनजान हो।
निजी अस्पताल में सरकारी पैसे से इलाज की छूट लेकिन निजी परिवहन से यात्रा करने पर सरकारी लाभ से वंचित
सुरभि अग्रवाल, शोभा शुक्ल, बाॅबी रमाकांत व संदीप पाण्डेय | जो लोग दैनिक मजदूरी कर के अपना जीवन यापन करते हैं, सरकार उनकी वास्तविकता से कितनी अनभिज्ञ है इस बात का अंदाजा इसी से लगाया जा सकता है कि सरकार द्वारा घोषित तालाबंदी ने समाज के इस बड़े वर्ग के दृष्टिकोण को मद्देनजर लिया ही नहीं। इनमें से करोड़ों की तादाद में लोग अपने घरों से दूर रहते हैं और दैनिक आय पर ही निर्भर थे।
Draconian Lockdown in Kashmir fails the Standard of Reasonableness and Proportionality
Atul and Sandeep Pandey | In this article we will analyse the justifiability of the lockdown in Kashmir using the test of reasonableness and proportionality often used by the Supreme Court in determining the constitutionality of restrictions imposed on fundamental rights.
Let Not Education Suffer
Pannalal Surana | Serious efforts will have to be made to restart the schools at least by the last week of June. There are problems and difficulties. In urban areas, classrooms are generally overcrowded. If the time-table of last year is to be followed, social distancing will come to a nought. Some persons have suggested that schools be held in three shifts after trifurcation the class strength.
How Can Privatisation and Foreign Direct Investment Possibly Make Us a Self-Reliant Nation?
Dr Sandeep Pandey, Surabhi Agarwal, Bobby Ramakant | Self-reliance can only be achieved through policy changes which deprioritise the interests of multinational corporations and adopt a people-centric, decentralised approach to industrialisation that improves local economies, drives job growth and supports public research and innovation.
Desperate Times Call for Radical Measures: COVID-19 and the Need for the Immediate Nationalisation of the Indian Healthcare Sector
Asmita Verma, Surabhi Agarwal and Bobby Ramakant | What could be a better way to scale up testing and increase hospitalization capacity and access in the country than to nationalise the private health sector? This would be far more effective than trying to negotiate pricing caps with the profit-seeking lobby of private healthcare.