–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
The Supreme Court Must Stop Aiding And Abetting The Gutting Of Free Speech In India
By Sachin Dhawan, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”—George Orwell “Amazon must tender unconditional apology. They must withdraw all products insulting our national flag immediately.”—Sushma Swaraj (on Twitter) The demonetisation Continue Reading
The Budget After Demonetisation: Will the Government Reform India’s Tax Structure?
-By Deepanshu Mohan, Exec. Director, Centre for International Economic Studies, Jindal School of International Affairs “Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence…but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice.” ∼ Adam Smith It is striking how Adam Smith, some 260 years ago, attached Continue Reading
DEGREE OR SKILL EDUCATION?
Attaining a degree is a sign of formal education but it no more guarantees individual growth, social stability or financial security. Skill education is the need of the hour for outcome-based learning that respond to global reality and learner’s aspiration, says Nisha Nair Education for the sake of attaining a degree Continue Reading
Without Rafsanjani
-By Professor Ramin Jahanbegloo, Vice Dean, Jindal Global Law School The death of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on January 8 has been considered by many analysts, around the world, as a loss of a political heavyweight in Iran’s domestic politics. Some portray Rafsanjani as one of the key Continue Reading
If Maggi Could Speak – By Hedwig
This is the fourth poem in a series of poems that explore what the commonplace objects in a student’s life would say if they underwent an Enid Blyton-esque change overnight, and could speak. This has been written in the form of a Sonnet (sort of). If the Maggi we buy Continue Reading
If My Textbooks Could Speak – By Hedwig
This is the fifth poem in a series of poems that explore what the commonplace objects in a student’s life would say if they underwent an Enid Blyton-esque change overnight, and could speak. This one has been written in the form of a Limerick. My Textbooks would tell me I’m Continue Reading
Jindal Global University Holds the 3rd International Literary Conference on “Emerging Issues in English Literature”
Jindal Global University hosted the 3rd International Literary Conference this year in its Sonipat campus from 21st-22nd December, 2016. This yearly conference was an initiative from English Literary Society of O.P. Jindal Global University; the theme this year was on, “Emerging Issues in English Literature” The International Literary Conference was Continue Reading