-By Dr. Nehginpao Kipgen, Political Scientist, Assistant Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs The 2015 Framework Agreement on the Naga issue is a key concern in these Assembly elections Manipur is to vote in two phases, on March 4 and 8, to elect the 60 members of the Legislative Assembly. Continue Reading
Perspectives
Digital India needs to make space for waste
-By Sriroop Chaudhuri and Mimi Roy, Assistant Professors at Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities Sustainable waste management has emerged as one of the stealthiest challenges that international authorities are facing these days. Recent findings on the waste-climate nexus further perplex experts. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Continue Reading
Giving Worth To The Worthless
-By Sriroop Chaudhuri and Mimi Roy, Assistant Professors, Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities While the world rips apart on raging debates over climate change and whether it is a right choice to ratify treaties rooted in hard science, our waste just keeps piling up silently and stealthily underneath Continue Reading
The sadness of the Ambassador: A great car from a bygone era
–By Dr. Shiv Dr. Shiv Visvanathan, Professor and Vice Dean (Institution Building), Jindal Global Law School In these days of start-ups and innovation chains, few people have time for nostalgia. One is not referring to vintage cars as conspicuous consumption, like owing a Rolls Royce or a Bentley, but the Continue Reading
Can the United Nations adapt to Donald Trump?
-By Professor Vesselin Popovski, Vice Dean and Executive Director, Centre for the Study of UN, Jindal Global Law School On January 1, 2017, Antonio Guterres began his five-year term as United Nations Secretary-General; 19 days later, Donald Trump began his own term as President of the United States. Guterres got Continue Reading
Ko Ni’s Assassination Is a Blow to Myanmar’s Democratization
By Dr. Nehginpao Kipgen, Political Scientist, Assistant Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs Ko Ni, a prominent Muslim lawyer and a key member of Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy party (NLD) party, was shot dead at Yangon International Airport on January 29. The prominent lawyer was holding and talking Continue Reading
Where all men are created equal but some are not
-By Arjya Majumdar & Dr. Armin Rosencranz, Jindal Global Law School The United States of America has been responsible for the most number of refugee resettlements since World War II. An executive order signed into effect by newly elected President Donald J. Trump on 27 January 2017 seeks to reverse Continue Reading
Changing contours of UP elections
–By Dr. Arun Kumar Kaushik, Assistant Professor, Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities The first of the seven-phase elections to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly will begin from February 11. Political dynamics have been changing dramatically over last few weeks and months. The rift between Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Continue Reading
On Social Progress, the 2017 Budget Has More Questions Than Answers
-By Deepanshu Mohan, Assistant Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs India’s Budget for 2017-18 remained one of the most awaited budget presentations in recent decades (perhaps since the historic 1991 Budget), where finance minister Arun Jaitley started by underlining the current government’s efforts in putting India on a “transformative mode” Continue Reading
Gandhi for our troubled times
-By Professor Ramin Jahanbegloo, Vice Dean, Jindal Global Law School The Mahatma’s approach to politics in terms of ‘resistance’ and ‘protest’ beyond a conception of domination over others provides a potential antidote to the contemporary crisis of democracy I once asked my students at Jindal Global University about Mahatma Gandhi’s Continue Reading