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This article is a critique on the state of compliance with the Indian CSR regulatory framework by companies in India, based on a qualitative content analysis of their self-reported CSR-related disclosures for the 2018–19 financial year. This article reveals important findings related to the issues of how companies are complying with the Indian CSR law. Most significantly, this article uncovers that many companies are not complying with the spending as well as its other statutory requirements. Many companies demonstrate a 'tick-box compliance' approach, with possible indications of circumventing the law for fulfilling self-interests. In particular, the government companies mainly undertake CSR activities in response to the national and state governments' directions. This article advocates the inclusion of systematic and detailed procedures to increase accountability and transparency in companies' CSR activities. This article also calls for the establishment and an increased role of a specialised and independent regulatory watch-dog for auditing, monitoring and assessing the CSR activities of companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Justin Rowlatt, the BBC's South Asia Correspondent, writes a reflection on the 1919 Amritsar Massacre and the 1919 Rowlatt Act, which was a precursor to the Massacre. The author is the great-grandson of Sir Sidney Rowlatt, who was responsible for the 1919 legislation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Much of the debate on the relationship between social norms and corruption has been confined to comparisons across countries. But a gap between what is morally acceptable by a society and what is legally correct can exist within individual countries as well. In such cases, it is possible for individual acts of corruption to be seen to be morally justified. This paper explores the emergence of this gap through the imposition of British law on a very different descriptive morality in nineteenth century Indian city of Bengaluru. Drawing from this experience it seeks to identify the dynamics of the process in a way that would allow for it to be used to understand corruption across different societies, and the lessons it has for an effective strategy against endemic corruption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Existen pocos datos sistemáticos sobre el alcance del incumplimiento de la legislación en los países en desarrollo, que se cree generalizado. Con datos de dos encuestas de empresas, los autores cuantifican el incumplimiento de la Ley de fábricas de la India y observan que las empresas infractoras doblan a las conformes y superan con mucho a las que eluden la ley mediante ciertos ajustes. Analizan las principales tendencias y pautas de incumplimiento y las ponen en relación con la ausencia de empresas de tamaño medio en la India y los debates sobre reglamentación. También destacan cuestiones para investigaciones futuras. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While research abounds on attitudes toward capital punishment in the United States, such work has been lacking in non-western nations--particularly in India, the world's largest democracy. Data recently collected have revealed variance in levels of support for the death penalty among Indian college students: 44 percent express some degree of opposition, 13 percent are uncertain, and 43 percent express some degree of support. Reasons for support or opposition also exhibited variance. According to a multivariate analysis, statistically significant reasons for support included retribution, instrumentalist goals, and incapacitation; while significant reasons for opposition included morality and the belief that deterrence could be achieved by imposing sentences of life without parole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]