FACULTY ARTICLES

On the way to offering advice to princes who have taken over a principality, Machiavelli offers the following dictum – “People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they...

We can expect the worst in the Middle East in the next few months after the purge in the Saudi royal family. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s apparent purge of royal cousins, high-...

In the lead-up to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to Myanmar, Jindal School of International Affairs' Nehginpao Kipgen says the top US diplomat’s conversations with Myanmar leaders will...

Stubble burning is an age-old practice in Haryana and Punjab. Official sources claim it has been curbed recently through regulations, bans, penalties and surveillance. Recent satellite imageries from...

When Thomas Carlyle described the Qur’an as a work of “insupportable stupidity,” he was expressing the prejudices of an unenlightened colonialist power. One might have hoped that Western society...

An interesting aspect of the 19th Communist Party Congress was a panel discussion between President Xi Jinping and officials of the Guizhou Province, from where Xi was elected as a delegate in April...

As part of his six-nation trip to Asia, US secretary of state Rex Tillerson will visit Myanmar on November 15. The main focus of Tillerson’s meeting with senior government leaders will be on issues...

This article provides an account of the recent literature on inclusive education, addressing its meaning and significance for school education in postcolonial India. I engage with the major...

The terrorist attack in New York city on Halloween day – in which a speeding pickup truck ploughed into pedestrians and killed 8 persons – is a reminder of how the threat of Islamic State (IS) is...

INDIA is currently in the midst of a roiling debate about the constitutionality of polygamy for Muslims. The government and its supporters claim that polygamy must be outlawed in the interests of...

In this paper, an approach is suggested to study the impact of time windows based on urban freight regulations on product cost at firm level. An initial classification is done regarding Policy-...

Lack of awareness among street vendors about their rights and harassment at the hand of government authorities is defeating the very purpose of the Act. Street vendors are a...

Sports has evolved as one of the fastest-growing revenue generators with billions of dollars involved in broadcasting rights, merchandising, salaries and contracts. As a result, many allied...

If the bureaucracy is not empathetic towards those who are slow to respond, it will be very damaging Eleven-year-old Santoshi Kumari died of starvation in Jharkhand’s Simdega district this month....

Maldives and Sri Lanka marked the 50th anniversary of their diplomatic relations in 2015.  The two Indian Ocean island nations share similar lifestyles, cultural and historical affinities,...

There is a famous quote by Winston Churchill that says: “Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.” This is...

Divorces between nations can be painful but if democratically handled, can lead to peaceful co-existence. “If it were true that sovereignty and freedom are the same, then indeed no man could be...

It is that time of the year again to think about clean earth, clear water, and pure breath. Each year, Diwali brings along this good citizen-bad citizen feeling. Our eco-friendly genes awaken and we...