Waste: An ocean of inaction

–By  Sriroop Chaudhuri & Mimi Roy, Jindal School of Liberal Arts Target 6.3 of the WHO-UNICEF’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) lays out clear directives for disposal, collection, treatment, and management of water resources and mandates on halving the proportion of untreated wastewater by increased recycling and safe reuse by 2030. Continue Reading

Tightening the global belt

By Sukumar Muralidharan, Associate Professor, Jindal School of Journalism & Communication  Centuries of history are invoked in China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) — by any measure an audacious effort at creating a new strategic architecture in the Eurasian land mass. Official China has referred back to its age of Continue Reading

Satyajit Ray’s Sonar Kella: The train to a golden fortress that wasn’t

To reiterate a cliché, the rail journeys themselves become the destinations, rather than simply being peripatetic wagons. –By Arup K Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School Thanks to JK Rowling’s literary clairvoyance, Harry Potter and his ilk travel to and aboard fraction-numbered platforms (9 3/4) and mythical trains (Hogwarts Continue Reading

Why RTE Implementation Needs Rethinking: Observations From Sonipat, Haryana

-By Deepanshu Mohan, Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs & Shivkrit Rai, Student, Jindal Global Law School “Somewhat bizarrely, the issue of learning is not very prominently positioned in international declarations…the implicit assumption, presumably, was that learning would follow from enrolment. But, unfortunately, things aren’t that simple…” ∼ Poor Economics Continue Reading