Unethical’ legal practitioners
Yes, legal practitioners should be ethical and exhibit good character. Every lawyer, whether enrolled as an advocate or as an attorney, has a duty to observe the Legal Practitioners and…
Technology, gender, ethics
The world was left in shock when reports emerged that between April and June 2019, not a single girl was born in 132 villages in India’s Uttarakhand state. These villages…
Climate and the religious lens
The condition of Pakistani cities shows that we are suffering from an intellectual, professional and moral crisis. There is a sense that the existing government institutions and people cannot be…
Lady Justice – or not
“Second, in the case of female graduates, the social pressure to get married and leave the workforce ramps up hugely after the first year.” This seemingly innocuous statement, very casually…
Corporate Chanakya
Recently someone forwarded me a video clip on WhatsApp in which Jaspal, a renowned motivational speaker from India, was speaking about growth, progress and success in the context of the…
Ben & Jerry’s Unilever fight shows risks of ceding control
Ben & Jerry’s legal battle with Unilever sheds light on an issue affecting a growing number of purpose-led brands: how to maintain their identity after being bought by a major…
Work ethics & Islam
MOHAMMED Abduh, the famous Egyptian Islamic scholar and jurist had once said: “I went to the West and saw Islam but there were no Muslims. I came to the East…
Organisational ethics
MANY organisations include ‘ethics’ in their vision and mission statements and policies without truly understanding what it means to be an ethical organisation. Outside a few countries in the West,…
Our flawed attitude
MUSLIMS throughout the world profess their faith through verbal declaration of the unity of God and the prophethood of Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH). The message brought by the latter has become…
Right vs wrong
In a society as morally perverse and corrupt as ours, does a centre of ethics have any relevance? A cynic’s answer would be a resounding ‘none whatsoever’. The idealist/reformer would…
