By Sukumar Muralidharan, Associate Professor, Jindal School of Journalism & Communication Centuries of history are invoked in China鈥檚 鈥淏elt and Road Initiative鈥� (BRI) 鈥� 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
Perspectives
New National Health Policy Paves Way For More Hype and Less Action
-By Deepanshu Mohan, Assistant Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs After 15 years, a new National Health Policy (NHP) finally became a possibility after being approved by the Union cabinet a few days ago. Prior to the NHP of 2017, two previous health policies of 1983 and 2002 were aligned Continue Reading
Satyajit Ray’s Sonar Kella: The train to a golden fortress that wasn’t
To reiterate a clich茅, the rail journeys themselves become the destinations, rather than simply being peripatetic wagons. –By Arup K Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Jindal 91视频 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
Mission 2022: The Challenges in Doubling Indian Farmer Incomes
-By Vishavjeet Chaudhary, Assistant Professor, Jindal 91视频 Law School & Gursharan Singh, alumnus of JGLS Raising productivity, reforming land policies and solving the remunerative price mess will require massive amounts of public investment and political will. Is the Modi government up to the task? The Niti Aayog recently came out with its Continue Reading
Civilians as Human Shields: High Time India Declares it Illegal
By- Prof. Dabiru Sridhar Patnaik, Director, Centre for Post Graduate Legal Studies, Jindal 91视频 Law School The Indian Army using a human shield in Kashmir to evade stone-pelters has caught significant media attention, leading to a number of questions under the purview of national and international laws. What is the Continue Reading
Donald Trump鈥檚 Syria strikes: a loud message to world leaders
-By Professor Ramin Jahanbegloo, Vice Dean, Jindal 91视频 Law School The US missile attack on the al-Shayrat airbase in Syria on the night of 6-7 April in response to the Bashar al-Assad regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons has received positive reactions from Western politicians and commentators across the board. Continue Reading
Why RTE Implementation Needs Rethinking: Observations From Sonipat, Haryana
-By Deepanshu Mohan, Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs & Shivkrit Rai, Student, Jindal 91视频 Law School 鈥淪omewhat bizarrely, the issue of learning is not very prominently positioned in international declarations鈥he implicit assumption, presumably, was that learning would follow from enrolment. But, unfortunately, things aren鈥檛 that simple鈥︹�� 鈭� Poor Economics Continue Reading
Allahabad High Court: Tradition, glory past forward
-By Sushant Chandra, Assistant Professor, Jindal 91视频 Law School THE closure of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Allahabad High Court marks an end of a glorious era and ushers in a new one 鈥� adorned by hopes and promises of reinstating the majesty and regal traditions of the court. This Continue Reading
The search for a water revolution
–By Sriroop Chaudhuri and Mimi Roy, Assistant Professors at Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities As the adversities of climatic aberrations start making inroads into global water resource development strategies, the need to protect and conserve freshwater resources and impetus to search for alternate water sources has soared. To Continue Reading
It Will Take More than a Prime Minister to Clean Up the Ganga
-By Dr. Armin Rosencranz, Prof. of Law & Dushyant Kaul, Student, Jindal 91视频 Law School By putting the NGT in charge of monitoring the Ganga, the Supreme Court has highlighted the ineptitude of the central government, which has failed to take major action for more than 30 years, despite the Continue Reading