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Erasmus Mundus Scholarships for Law and Economics (EDLE)

Erasmus Mundus Scholarships for European Doctorate in Law and Economics
(EDLE)

Description The importance of Law and Economics within modern legal
scholarship continues to expand. Today, Law and Economics has

New Media-Jamsheer

Communication is transmitting the information one person to another. It requires a sender, a message, an intended recipient and a medium. Media (singular medium) are the storage and transmission channels or tools used to store and deliver information or data. The word medium comes from the Latin word medius (middle).

‘We want…’ – a collection of children’s thought on education

Children and youth are very important stakeholders of the society which we often forget. Sometimes we create such a

scenario and setup at home/school/society that children are forced to withdraw themselves from taking active participation in decision making processes. There are a number of organizations and individuals who are working actively for long to address this issue.

In this context, DRCSC had organized this

Targeting Dalits

The police action against Dalits in Paramakudi leaves indelible scars on the psyche of the oppressed people all over Tamil Nadu.

S. Dorairaj/ Frontline/Sep24-Oct07,2011

The Tamil Nadu Police, in its modern avatar, reflects a glorious tradition of over a century and a half. It was the only force to embark on State-sponsored modernisation in the early 1990s which was pioneered by me during my first tenure as Chief Minister from 1991 to 1996. Seizing the opportunity, the Tamil Nadu Police transformed itself into a mature and modern force with a humane face and unique approach to people and problems....”

Ready More: http://www.flonnet.com/fl2820/stories/20111007282012800.htm

A plea for education: The Tamil documentary ‘Enakku Illaya Kalvi?'

The Tamil documentary ‘Enakku Illaya Kalvi?' powerfully portrays the state of school education in Tamil Nadu.

S. Dorairaj/Frontline/Sep24-Oct07,2011

The film, produced by the Institute of Human Rights Education (IHRE) and directed by the writer and orator Bharathi Krishnakumar, stresses the need to liberate the sector from the stranglehold of commercialisation and also from caste- and class-based prejudices.

How green is biofuel?

New York Times News Service/ October 3,2011

Scientists say policy makers have overestimated the potential for bioenergy to cut greenhouse gas emissions. There are concerns that large patches of forest and grassland will be cleared or burned to grow fuel crops. Another cause for concern is that growing food crops (displaced by fuel crops) elsewhere will release carbon into the atmosphere, writes James Kanter

Poverty a Cruel Joke: with planning panel's Rs 32 a day idea

India Today / Archive / Special Report / October 10, 2011 / Story

The primary policy purpose of a well-defined poverty line in India and elsewhere is to be able to target entitlement programmes properly. The Government of India has been far from efficient in helping out the poor through welfare programmes over the years. Now it has found a way keep them out of the statistics.

Less And Lesser: AP’s BPL criteria is befuddling

Anuradha Raman /Outlook/October 03,2011

The Planning Commission submission to India’s highest court that the poor are defined as those who earn Rs 25 or less a day in rural areas and Rs 32 or less in urban locations would have made for a good joke if it wasn’t so tragic.

Great grain lottery

India Today / Archive / NATION / October 10, 2011 / Story

Andhra: Can Kiran Reddy's scheme of offering rice at Re 1 a kilo to the poor win him popularity as CM

No Look-Wages! A minister vows to root out ‘nokkukooli’--the onlooker wages

Outlook/October 10, 2011

Easing The Load...

’Attimari’ is an extortionate system of wages that headload workers’ unions in Kerala imposed for loading/unloading goods
If you use outside workers, the union insists on compensation, ‘nokkukooli’, literally, wages for looking on. Union might has kept this practice alive for decades.
Labour minister S.B. John has vowed to root out nokkukooli, starting with Trivandrum.