Showing all 5 books
The use of tax havens to not just avoid payment of taxes but also evade them has attracted considerable attention across the world and in India.
Tax havens, also known as low-tax or no-tax jurisdictions, enable ultra-rich individuals and corporate entities, to not pay taxes, legally and illegally. There is a thin dividing line between tax avoidance (often described as ‘good’ tax planning) and tax evasion (deemed criminal in most countries). In fact, ...
The media have a special relationship with conflict situations, external or internal which has been an integral part of the history of a country as well as the world. Northeast India has been beset with insurgencies for more than half-a-century. The Nagas rebelled in the early 1950s and since then insurgency in some form or the other has spread to all the states of the northeast, popularly known as seven sisters. While insurgency in the northeast India is taking ...
The work focuses on the political controversy relating to mining, marketing and monetising of gas resources embedded in the ocean bed of the Bay of Bengal. It deals with the controversy, involving the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the ministry of petroleum and natural gas and the prime minister’s office, to study the dimensions to the dispute on gas pricing. It points out that in this context, the battle between the Ambani brothers, Mukesh and ...
This second expanded edition of Media Ethics is aimed at sensitizing aspiring media students to issues faced by working professionals. It offers a theoretical rationale for acting in an ethical manner and provides practical guidelines as well.
Key Features: New chapters on paid news and reality television. Revised chapters on introduction to media ethics, media market, new media, and ethics of advertising. New annexures on the scandal surrounding the News of the ...
This topical and absorbing book, written by two eminent journalists, explains why India has entered a new era of coalition politics and analyses the consequences and implications of this relatively recent phenomenon. Transition from single party domination to multiparty configurations or coalitions, the authors argue, is neither temporary nor an aberration. Dismissing the notion of bi-polarity, and resting the debate on whether coalition governments are here to ...