The Geographical Indication Hurdles That We Need to Talk About: ft Niharika Salar

About this episode

Sonisha Srinivasan speaks to Ms. Niharika Salar about some of the practical challenges to the artisan communities like the gap between geographical indication registrations and actual empowerment, role of GI on livelihoods and revival of cultures, and quality control. The episode also covers the law (text) and some conceptual underpinnings in the context of India with real stories and thought-provoking insights.

About Ms. Niharika Salar:Ms. Niharika Salar, is a PhD scholar at Queen’s University, Belfast, UK. She has done extensive fieldwork with GI artisan communities. She is currently exploring the research frontiers of Intellectual Property Law, community rights and traditional weaving techniques. Prior to her doctoral pursuits, she served as an Assistant Professor at NALSAR University of Law (India), teaching courses to BA LLB & LLM students and supervising LLM thesis. An alumnus of National University of Singapore and National University of Study & Research in Law, India, her areas of research interest include Intellectual Property Law , socio-legal approaches to studying law and legal education. During her postgraduate studies at NUS Singapore, she was awarded the ‘Young Asian IP Scholar Award’ at the 5th Asian IP Works-In-Progress Conference Program, Hong Kong (2020).

All views expressed here by the speakers are in their personal capacity, and in general are to be considered as curious engagement with the subject at hand. If you want the formal language, then: This podcast is intended solely for informational and academic discussion purposes and does not constitute legal advice or create any attorney-client relationship

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Credits:

Swaraj Paul Barooah: Producer, Director, Editor

Sonisha Srinivasan: Host, Researcher, Editor

Anjali Tripathi: Graphics, Media and Thumbnail Art

Tanishka Goswami: Graphics and Subtitles

Media Credits:

The images appearing at 05:56, 20:19, 23:08, 38:28, 45:58, and 43:16 are photographs clicked by Ms. Niharika Salar during her field work.

The maps appearing in this video are used for illustrative purpose only and have been sourced from https://surveyofindia.gov.in/pages/outline-maps-of-india