Indian company law Puns

Hello all, So the year 2021 is ending and New Year is close by. I have decided to change my work place for next year.

I have been practising law in India and before that I was in an IP law firm. I would love to know where I can get an opportunity to work as a legal consultant for Indian laws in some overseas MNCs or law firms.

Hope with the coming of this new year my new plans will get a good start.

Thanks.

Astrozeneca, Sputnik, Covaxin all conduct trials in India and get access to Indian markets. Pfizer & Moderna refuse to conduct trials in India for over a year, demand special indemnity for side-effects (which no other vaccinemaker was given) and liberals support this exceptionalism.

Koo adheres to Indian IT laws, Twitter after refusing to remove fake news in middle of riots that a protester was shot by policeman on Republic Day, after suspending accounts like TrueIndology for posting historical facts, while keeping account of Sharjeel Usmani well & kicking after saying "anyone saying Jai Shree Ram is a terrorist", after refusing to tag Kejriwal's "Singapore strain" as fake news while tagging Congress toolkit as fakenews; and when asked for proof of it being fake, refer to their US offices (from where nobody answers to Indian authorities); now Twitter refuses to comply with Indian laws saying it's against "FOE". And liberals are supporting twitter obviously in this American exceptionalism in India.

By the way, this is the same twitter which removed all tweets about the Beijing-Hunter Biden story right before US elections and locked NYPost account & several other accounts tweeting about it (including Indian accounts), which is talking of FOE here. And was also suspending anyone stating that the coronavirus was manufactured in US funded Wuhan labs.

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/twitter-suspends-account-chinese-virologist-covid-19-virus-made-wuhan-laboratory-1722611-2020-09-17

Amazon circumvents Indian laws on monopoly & purchase of local goods while using its mouthpiece WashingtonPost to paint India as a "fascist state" not allowing it to operate.

Edit: Ah, India creates FCRA laws to scrutinize the 20,000 crore FCRA flowing into India annually about its usage. US-tech corporates dominated NASSCOM now demanding that the FCRA laws be scrapped even as the FCRA orgs are sitting on cashpile of over $2.5 billion in form of fixed deposits in Indian banks. This same NASSCOM was also pushing for Pfizer & Moderna btw.

Foreign corporate giants are deciding the laws of a developing country to suit their own economic & geopolitical interests, if this is not neocolonalism, what is?

We got off on a shaky relationship because my husband (their ‘golden child’) was meant to have an arranged marriage.. and instead he married me. We are very happy and just welcomed a baby in June.

Alright SO my husband and I have been married since 2019. We visited his family for 6 weeks last year and all went pretty well. Im currently learning Telugu.

His cousin (and cousins wife and kid) are visiting us, as is my mother in law and father in law. The cousins speak English, my my mother in law and father in law do not.

I’ve been cooking daily authentic curries (since before we were married), I make daily chai (multiple times), I participate at the temple when they go, learning the language, etc.

While they like me, there still seems to be some disconnect Thats largely due to cultural differences. My sense of humor doesn’t resonate (I’m very sarcastic) and I’m very straight forward. I’m trying to follow their cultural norms, but at times feel a bit isolated honestly.

I’d like to make a good impression. I know everyone is different, but if you were in their place, what things would you like to see? What would reassure you? Or make you happy? Literally any advice or positive thoughts welcome.

ETA: since this has come up a lot, I figure I should mention I’m not (and never will be) a pushover. I set boundaries and expect them to be maintained. But if there’s anything that’s reasonable that I should be doing that I may not have thought of, or is respectful, I would love to know. Example: when we were in India, they were all shocked that i sat on the floor with my Athayya and folded laundry. To me that seemed natural - everyone else was just sitting around. But little things like that that may make them happy.

My trainers stopped mma classes during covid and had to give up the gym. Now that classes have resumed, they are doing their best to find a new space but until then we've decided to take it outside. We started in the society's parking lot my trainer owned, but some lady in the society complained about it, so we moved our exercises to the corner of a public park. Today we had a man tell us we are performing "illegal activities" without any elaboration. He pointed out me and another student saying we were "innocent kids/innocent girls". When he was asked to explain, he just said "you know what you are doing". His manner of speaking was condescending and he just wanted us out of the huge, empty park at 8am at his whim. He started complaining loudly to other residents. It was humiliating when we were just trying to exercise. We are considerate of other park users and do not take up much space, nor do we do it in a disruptful way. We do not spar in public. Question is, is there anything I can say or do that can get these fuckers to back down?

Me (36M Gujarati) and my fiancée (32F Hindu - let’s call her C) got engaged last summer and the wedding is in Aug 22.

Prior to our engagement my fiancée and I got on great with the in laws. However the problems started once we got engaged.

After our engagement my family held an intimate party for us at my house (which MIL and FIL of course attended) - following this my in laws decided they needed a party for their family. We didn’t want a big party as we wanted to get started planning the wedding because everything was getting booked up after Covid. However as the ILs felt strongly about it, and insisted they were happy to cover the costs as it was something they wanted, we compromised and decided to have one. As the engagement party planning came around, it became obvious the ILs wanted a party without any of the work entailed in planning it. My family ended up planning the entire thing with their only contribution was picking up the bill. We consulted with them on all aspects as it’s an event that they wanted ie food, cost, decor, etc - for most of these the decisions made were not ones C and I would have gone with, but we went along with it as it was “their’ party.

The real issue came two weeks before the party when they phoned us and insisted the date of the party needed to be moved because they were told by a friend that it was an inauspicious date. Everything had been organised but they didn’t care, it had be changed. This infuriated C as they had several months to check the date. In the end, after fights between C and her parents, we changed the date, meaning my own brother could not attend due to work. Whilst FIL expressed guilty about this, I can’t help but feel he was more worried about him looking like an AH than feeling actual guilt. I also know if the situation were reversed and Cs sister couldn’t come my parents enforced, FIL wouldn’t have allowed it.

The time has come for wedding planning and the problems have only worsened. My FIL who wants to do things traditionally has insisted on paying for the wedding months ago. But now wedding planning has come around we are starting to realise this means everything being done their way (food, attire, music etc), but as with the engagement, without any effort or planning from their side.

Like engagement we have realised the only way to get things done is to organise it ourselves. However at every turn the ILs have something negative to say about our choices, and every discussion ends up in an

Cryptography is an established branch of Computer Science, but creating a soft set of keys or digital signature is no rocket science. There are open source tools such as GPG available freely using which even a first year B'Tech student can create a digital signature (ask them if you have one accessible!).

Now for something as trivial as creating a digital signature (DSC) with our PAN info associated with it, this eMudhra store charges ₹899 which has to be renewed each year. However, a DSC is useless without the ability to sign documents with it, so to purchase a signer, you have to shell another ₹19.99k each year (The open source way is to use the same free GPG tool which can both create a signature and sign a document with it).

So, that comes to around ₹20k for such a trivial thing. Thankfully, the GST Council has removed the DSC requirement for individuals and partnerships, so they can use the freely available aadhar e-sign service instead. But its still there for companies and LLPs, who unfortunately cannot be issued aadhar.

So, if you form a limited company or LLP in India, then one of the major expense will be to shell this ₹20k each year on DSC. Now, you might be a rich company owner who doesn't give a crap about spending ₹20k in a year. But this is not about that, its about why these companies are making a quick buck by enjoying the CA (Certifying Agency) status given by the government? I think the government should handle this task on its own (the IT Dept. that maintains returns filing site can easily do it). If not, create an Indian version of Lets Encrypt so that this service is freely available to small businesses who don't want to spend a fortune.

So I joined this company about two years ago (just under). I work in data protection, and this company I work at is a very old-school company who keep their knowledge in their heads and have very little to no actual policies, procedures and guidance written down.

I've been telling them for over a year now that they are breaking the law and need to approve policies to be published publicly and internally. The managing director doesn't want to "rock the boat" and annoy his staff, so he has purposely held off from approving OVER 80 policies and procedures currently waiting on his signature.

Today I was told that my stresses from not having a single policy approved is down to me "not managing my workload properly" and that I "have an obligation to help this company comply with the law".

No shit, Sherlock.

I am a CISSP. It means nothing to most people, but if you work in information security or data protection, it's a big thing. I spent years studying, getting the correct experience and making sure I was at the top of my game. They pay me the wage arguably of someone just starting in data protection, so you can imagine I was already in a pretty bad place mentally from this.

To go with that, I cover the workload of about 3-4 people, including data protection, ISO compliance, subject access requests, GDPR, PCI DSS and various other acronyms that mean little to people until everyone realises it's there to protect their data. Long story short, any of those acronyms/positions are good to fill the workload for a single person full-time. I do all of them at the same time. I'm so overworked and stressed, I spend a full hour each day at my desk just writing out what I'm doing that day!

This being the final nail in a very long coffin, I started reaching out to people in my network. One company happened to be looking for a Compliance Officer, offering a 100% payrise as well as other perks for doing less work than I do now, and the ability to work fully from home (my first ever job with this kind of perk!).

So being a qualified CISSP who could feasibly lose his certification if he does the wrong ethical thing, I am handing in my notice tomorrow. They can try and find someone who will do the work of 3-4 people and for the pay of not-even-half of one. I'm done here.

The look on their face tomorrow when they realise they have 3 months to find someone to not only cover my position, but probably that the person won't do the work I've done (I know, I was stupid and could

Astrozeneca, Sputnik, Covaxin all conduct trials in India and get access to Indian markets. Pfizer & Moderna refuse to conduct trials in India for over a year, demand special indemnity for side-effects (which no other vaccinemaker was given) and liberals support this exceptionalism.

Koo adheres to Indian IT laws, Twitter after refusing to remove fake news in middle of riots that a protester was shot by policeman on Republic Day, after suspending accounts like TrueIndology for posting historical facts, while keeping account of Sharjeel Usmani well & kicking after saying "anyone saying Jai Shree Ram is a terrorist", after refusing to tag Kejriwal's "Singapore strain" as fake news while tagging Congress toolkit as fakenews; and when asked for proof of it being fake, refer to their US offices (from where nobody answers to Indian authorities); now Twitter refuses to comply with Indian laws saying it's against "FOE". And liberals are supporting twitter obviously in this American exceptionalism in India.

By the way, this is the same twitter which removed all tweets about the Beijing-Hunter Biden story right before US elections and locked NYPost account & several other accounts tweeting about it (including Indian accounts), which is talking of FOE here. And was also suspending anyone stating that the coronavirus was manufactured in US funded Wuhan labs.

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/twitter-suspends-account-chinese-virologist-covid-19-virus-made-wuhan-laboratory-1722611-2020-09-17

Amazon circumvents Indian laws on monopoly & purchase of local goods while using its mouthpiece WashingtonPost to paint India as a "fascist state" not allowing it to operate.

Edit: Ah, India creates FCRA laws to scrutinize the 20,000 crore FCRA flowing into India annually about its usage. US-tech corporates dominated NASSCOM now demanding that the FCRA laws be scrapped even as the FCRA orgs are sitting on cashpile of over $2.5 billion in form of fixed deposits in Indian banks. This same NASSCOM was also pushing for Pfizer & Moderna btw.

Foreign corporate giants are deciding the laws of a developing country to suit their own economic & geopolitical interests, if this is not neocolonalism, what is?

Okay so multiple people reached out to me and said I may get more specific advice here. I understand no one is perfect, I’m not going to go out of my way to try impressing them, but if there’s little things I can go that would help our relationship I would love to know.

We got off on a shaky relationship because my husband (their ‘golden child’) was meant to have an arranged marriage.. and instead he married me. We are very happy and just welcomed a baby in June.

Alright SO my husband and I have been married since 2019. We visited his family for 6 weeks last year and all went pretty well. Im currently learning Telugu.

His cousin (and cousins wife and kid) are visiting us, as is my mother in law and father in law. The cousins speak English, my my mother in law and father in law do not.

I’ve been cooking daily authentic curries (since before we were married), I make daily chai (multiple times), I participate at the temple when they go, learning the language, etc.

While they like me, there still seems to be some disconnect Thats largely due to cultural differences. My sense of humor doesn’t resonate (I’m very sarcastic) and I’m very straight forward. I’m trying to follow their cultural norms, but at times feel a bit isolated honestly.

I’d like to make a good impression. I know everyone is different, but if you were in their place, what things would you like to see? What would reassure you? Or make you happy? Literally any advice or positive thoughts welcome.

ETA: since this has come up a lot, I figure I should mention I’m not (and never will be) a pushover. I set boundaries and expect them to be maintained. But if there’s anything that’s reasonable that I should be doing that I may not have thought of, or is respectful, I would love to know. Example: when we were in India, they were all shocked that i sat on the floor with my Athayya and folded laundry. To me that seemed natural - everyone else was just sitting around. But little things like that that may make them happy.