On 22nd December 1901, Rabindranath Tagore established his school at Santiniketan with five students (including his eldest son) and an equal number of teachers. He originally named it Brahmacharya Ashram in the tradition of ancient forest hermitages. Not too many know that Shantiniketan, which means the abode of peace – long before it became the…
India is ranked second in world population, and soon it will outrank China. India is expected to add nearly 273 million people to its population between now and 2050, a UN report said in 2019, forecasting that the country will cross China as the world’s most populous country by 2027. India will remain the most populated…
What is Legal Adoption? According to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) change Act, 2006, once a child is separated from his biological parents for good and becomes a legitimate child of his adoptive parents he gets all the rights that are related to biological parents. If a Foreigner wants to adopt an…
The Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956 [1]deals with the legal procedure of adoption of children by Hindus and other legal obligations that need to be followed like maintenance of children, wife etc. This law was derived from the uncodified Hindu Laws Dharamsastra. This act was enacted as part of the Hindu Code Bills. This…
The sole object of adoption is to provide a child to the parentless and a home. It is a means by which the family line is prevented from extinction. Under the old Hindu Law, there were many restrictions regarding adoption but under the modern Hindu law, a person cannot adopt more than one male &…
Despite its common usage and perception, what corruption means is surely enigmatic. Corruption is more like a multi-focal, multivariate and mutli-dimensional eternity of socio-political system. Dictionary meaning of corruption implies deviation from the expected or ideal form; it is all about dishonest, illegal or immoral act or behaviour especially of someone having power. Concise Oxford…
We used to talk about a lot of things, and very few times it was related to the study. We even made a special WhatsApp group for our close friends. We used to do some really interesting chats there. Many of the boys from that group started flirting with girls, and many tried flirting with…
WHAT IS ADOPTION ? Section 5 of The Hindu Adoption Act,1956 defines adoption. Adoption is a legal prosse4s in which there is a fully transfer of parental responsibility of a child gorm his parents or guardian to their adoptive parents. There are lots of children who lives in orphanage and roadside and had no one…
INTRODUCTION: According to research by the Indian Association for Promotion of Adoption and Child Welfare, the number of unmarried women in India who wish to adopt is constantly increasing, fueled by a desire to start a family. The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, regulates adoption for Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs in India. Because Muslims,…
‘Adopting one child won’t change the world: but for that child, the world will change.’ – Unknown Every child deserves the love of family and nurturing of a family. Growing up with the constant support of parents and siblings has a very good and wholesome effect on the personality and virtues of a child. But not every child has…
