Suhani Lal

A child does not understand tradition, religion, or social custom, she understands only pain. Female Genital Mutilation is often performed at an age when a girl cannot speak, resist, or even comprehend what is being done to her body. What is justified as “culture” leaves behind lifelong scars physical, psychological, and legal. Observed every year on 6 February, the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation reminds us that this practice is not merely a social issue,...

Introduction: “If someone attacks you, the law doesn’t expect you to say, ‘Objection, milord!’ before defending yourself. It understands that survival sometimes requires action and it even has ten full sections dedicated to that very instinct. That’s self-defense for you.” Self-defense refers to the right of an individual to use reasonable force to protect themselves or others from immediate harm or threat. In the legal context, it means using proportionate force to prevent an attack, injury,...

Interrogations are widely imagined as the most direct route to discovering the truth in crime investigations, especially in cases as serious as murder. Popular culture often reinforces this belief: a suspect is placed in a stark room, confronted by trained interrogators, and eventually delivers a confession that solves the case. But psychology shows a very different picture. In reality, the human mind behaves unpredictably under pressure, and what emerges in an interrogation room is not...