NLSIU: NLSAT- 2nd MPP Live Information Session on March 31

Only candidates who have completed the registration process (i.e. those who have completed the payment for the NLSAT-MPP) will be eligible to attend the information session. Candidates who have already completed their registration may log in to the admissions portal (admissions.nls.ac.in) and click on the webinar link to register for the information session.

NLSIU will be conducting a second live information session on the Master’s Programme in Public Policy on March 31, 2023, from 5 p.m. – 6 p.m. This online information session will provide information on preparing for the NLSAT – MPP and the test pattern. Faculty will also discuss sample questions during the session.

"Please note, only candidates who have completed the registration process (i.e. those who have completed the payment for the NLSAT-MPP) will be eligible to attend the information session. Candidates who have already completed their registration may login to the admissions portal (admissions.nls.ac.in) and click on the webinar link to register for the information session," reads the NLSIU statement.

Details of panel of speakers

Dr. Sneha Thapliyal, Associate Professor, Economics: Sneha Thapliyal is a trained environmental economist and has taught courses on microeconomics, environmental economics, public policy, and sustainability across undergraduate, graduate, and short-term training programmes since 2015. Her primary research interests are biodiversity conservation, environmental governance, policy analyses, inequalities, and pedagogy. She is also a Canadian Commonwealth Scholar from McGill University, Canada (2013).

Dr Rinku Lamba Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy: Dr. Rinku Lamba has worked at the Centre for Political Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University for over 13 years. She has taught courses in contemporary political theory, and the history of political thought (Indian and Western), and also supervised research work of doctoral candidates in these areas. She previously held visiting faculty positions at Humboldt University, and University of Wurzburg in Germany, and served as an instructor at the University of Toronto. Her work focuses on state power, multiculturalism, secularism, and conceptions of religion in India, as well as on the political thought of Ranade, Phule, Ambedkar and Gandhi.

She was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, a Harold Coward Fellow at the University of Victoria, and held fellowships at the University of Sydney and at the Australian Catholic University, Sydney. More recently, she was a senior research fellow at the Multiple Secularities Research Centre in the University of Leipzig, and at the Justitia Amplificata Research Centre in the Goethe University in Frankfurt. She was also the Lansdowne Visiting Scholar in Religious Studies at the University of Victoria in Canada in 2019. In 2022, she received the Dalai Lama Fellowship for Nalanda Studies from the Foundation for Universal Responsibility. During this fellowship, she will be working on a monographic essay on Rabindranath Tagore’s Religion of Man.

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