Projects

In the wake of climate change and its impact on bio-physical conditions of human life, the question about our responsibilities for future generations has become a pressing one. Human generations thrive on the hard work and toil of preceding generations. In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis reminds the present generation of its responsibility towards the ‘not yet born’, stressing that “leaving an inhabitable planet to future generations is, first and ...

This doctoral study focuses on the process of family separation that is experienced by live-in child domestic workers and their families in India. Indeed, child domestic workers who live at their employer’s homes often face long-term separation from their families. The child may be employed in a home far away from where the family resides (in different cities or states), and in many instances the child and the family may be unaware of where ...

This research project wants to give new and solid ground for debates about missionaries' role in the postcolonial era by analyzing Christian missionaries in India after independence in 1947. More particularly, it seeks to examine how missionaries’ ideas and practices showed (dis)continuity with the colonial ‘civilizing mission’, and how their heritage has gradually been taken over by local clergy and perceived by other local actors. It will ...

The research is an attempt to analyze the canonical law on mixed marriage in the light of the 1954 Indian Special Marriage Act. Mixed marriages are a sociological fact and are increasingly common among people of different religions. It is a culturally sensitive issue in countries with a strong tradition of endogamous marriage. For example, it leads to major challenges in multi-religious India, where religious affiliation, in addition to the ...

This research aims to address emerging complexities in the peri-urban system, livelihood transitions and contribution of multifunctional agriculture in the context of interdependent resilience of the rural-urban region, in the periphery of Delhi. It aims to advance the reconceptualization of resilient cities of tomorrow, by gaining a perspective on landscape transformations and socio-ecological dynamics. By critically approaching present ...

Women affected by gender discrimination and socio-cultural stratification are the ones most relegated to the margins. Along with social conscientization and capacity building there is need for integral growth, personal and communitarian resistance and spiritual awakening that will enable women to discover their hidden God-given potential enabling them to live fully with dignity, freedom, integrity and purpose and be effective leaders and ...

So far the vast majority of WTO compliance studies have been ‘quantitative’ in nature, in that, they focus on the timeliness aspect of compliance. However, the ‘quality’ or completeness of compliance has mostly been left out. This presents us with a skewed picture of global (and individual) compliance, which does both theoretical and practical harm. WTO law, interpreted one way, does show a preference towards ‘full’ or ‘substantial’ ...

The question of the role of women in the Gospel of John has been widely debated after the ground breaking work of Raymond Brown (1975), “Roles of Women in the Fourth Gospel”. Since then, we have a number of scholarly researches done on the topic. For instance, Schneiders (1982); Seim (1987); Thiessen (1990); Conway (1999); Bierne (2003) etc deal with the prominent roles of Johannine women assigned with a “quasi-apostolic role” (Brown, 1975) ...