Articles by Abhishek Kumar

Sections 357 and 357-A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 lay down the procedure for granting compensation to the victims of crime. Under the latter section, each state of the country is to set up a victim compensation scheme in consonance with the Central Victim Compensation Fund Scheme guidelines. At present, however, state schemes are vastly different from one another in terms of the number of categories under which a victim may apply for compensation as well as the amount of compensation prescribed under each category. Here, the author wishes to show that the resultant outcome of this is prejudicial to the interests of the victim.

With designers and manufacturers focusing more on creating aspirational value rather than enhancing the utility of a product, what does it mean for us as consumers?

Contemporary designers and architects would do well to revisit Gaston Bachelard’s work to imbue the spaces they create with meaning.

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