An article by Professor Jayaram Ramakrishnan, Professor of Practice, Finance, IFMR GSB titled Strategic Pricing Frameworks for MSMEs in the Indian Auto Component Industry: A B2B Perspective has been published in MSME Titbits, the official journal of MSME & Start up Promotion Board of ICMAI in their bi-monthly April 26 edition (Volume 8).
Professor Mukund Padmanabhan, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, SIAS has penned an Opinion piece in ThePrint titled, How did we miss the Vijay phenomenon in Tamil Nadu?
The article discusses how in a state where one of the two dominant Dravidian parties, the DMK and the AIADMK, has been in power since 1967, the TVK’s focus on change found clear resonance.
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS and Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh, Associate Professor of Practice,Literature and Global Arts, SIAS will be part of various conference presentations at the ‘European Geosciences Union General Assembly’ (EGU 2026). EGU is a major conference in the field of Climate and Earth Sciences, and is being held in Vienna from 3-8 May 2026.
Dr Dhara will be speaker at the talk, ‘Interpreting climate performance indices: implications for equitable and effective policy’. The piece is co-authored with Krea alum Ishitha Bagri.
Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh, Associate Professor of Practice,Literature and Global Arts, SIAS will also be delivering a talk titled ‘When the Sea Changes, Who Decides? Performing Climate Knowledge Beyond Data’. The talk is based on a joint course conducted by Dr Ganesh and Dr Dhara at Krea, called ‘Theatre of the climate: performing a just future’.
Dr K P Sooraj from IITM, Pune will be speaking on ‘Future intensification of Northern Hemisphere Monsoons due to Declining Remote Aerosols’ for which Dr Dhara is a co-author.
These topics span climate science, climate policy, and climate education.
Krea-CWP faculty members Neha Mishra, Assistant Professor of Practice; Rahul Pillai, Faculty Teaching Associate, and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice conducted a two-day reading-writing workshop for students of the Centre for Women’s Studies, Pondicherry University. The online workshop was titled ‘Old Worlds, New Insights: Reading, Writing, & Rewriting in Response to Research Questions.
About the Workshop
All research begins with questions that guide the work of scholars as they seek to contribute new knowledge to their field of study. This two-day workshop will unpack key scholarly moves involved in working with sources—summarising, analysing, conceptualising, and theorising—that allow scholars to build upon existing knowledge and arrive at something of their own to say in response to their research question. Aside from inviting the participants to practise these scholarly moves by drafting responses to an assigned question, this hands-on workshop will include writing and rewriting sessions to guide the participants as they learn how to complicate commonplace ideas and organise them in coherent paragraphs while engaging with and incorporating feedback on their writing.
Abhayraj Naik, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, Environmental Studies, SIAS has co-authored an essay titled Infinite Reservoir of Agency in the recently-released Higher Studies Toolkit for Critical Ocean Literacy (OCEAN / UNI 2026).
Abstract
Amidst the lush rice fields of Andhra Pradesh, Abhayraj Naik reflects in an experiential essay on the interconnectedness between humans and the land, slipping through the cracks of urbanization, climate change, and agrarian crises. Naik observes a resilient “knowing” among farming communities: a deep, spiritual bond with the earth, expressed in their rituals, festivals, and resistance against ecological destruction. His visit to his ancestral home near Udupi rekindles this connection, revealing both the beauty of interspecies kinship and the shadows of historical injustices. The re-discovery of this rootedness unlocks an “infinite reservoir of agency” with the potential to reclaim environmental justice and rebuild a regenerative world.
Read the essay, here
The critical ocean literacy educator toolkit is available here
A research article by Dr Mohammed Sajjad Hussain, Post-Doctoral Fellow,Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences titled Delivering Food, Navigating Stigma has been published in the journal Labor History.
The latest novel by Dr R S Sathya Saminadan, Associate Professor of Practice, Marketing, IFMR GSB named The Kingmaker Conspiracy, has been featured in Gurgaon Times ( part of The Times of India) as part of their World Book Day special highlighting must-read titles.
On 28 April 2026, Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda, Associate Professor, Politics, SIAS delivered an online talk for the Bahujan Students Front at the University of Hyderabad titled ‘Educate, Agitate, Organize: Dalit and Black Visions of Liberation’. The lecture offered a comparative reflection on the Black civil rights movement and Dalit struggles for equality, highlighting how both traditions challenged systems of inherited hierarchy through ideas, protest, and collective organisation. It examined the contributions of thinkers such as B R Ambedkar, Jyotirao Phule, W E B Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr, and Angela Davis, while exploring themes of dignity, democracy, representation, and student responsibility. The talk concluded by emphasising the continuing relevance of education, agitation, and solidarity in confronting contemporary forms of exclusion and injustice.
Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP was a panellist for a panel discussion titled ‘Between Risk and Care: Building Safety in Turbulent Times’, organised by Izaar Circle, New Delhi on 18 April 2026. The discussion revolved around risk, precarity and care in the aftermath of the recently passed Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act 2026.
Dr Joya John, Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS has penned an article in The Wire titled For the Love of Infrastructure: Music, Protest and the Politics of Care in Iran and India.
In Iran, citizens gather around key infrastructure—often using music—to protect it amid threats, reframing it as a site of collective care and survival. The piece briefly contrasts this with India, where infrastructure is more often contested.
