Dr Proma Raychaudhury, Assistant Professor, Politics, SIAS facilitated and taught a session at the Reactionary Politics Summer School 2025, organised by the University of Bath, United Kingdom. The workshop was held on 11 and 12 September 2025.
Dr Sharin Shajahan (Naomi), Post-Doctoral Fellow, SIAS, has published an article titled Artificial Intelligence and Anti-Feminist Backlash in Oxford Intersections: AI in Society. The article offers a conceptual understanding of the relationship between AI and anti-feminist backlash, drawing on a feminist approach to technology.
A project by Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS has been approved under the prestigious ISRO RESPOND programme. The project proposal is titled ‘Large and small-scale ionospheric plasma irregularities using airglow imaging and GNSS TEC measurements’.This will be a two year project in collaboration with Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. The support is approximately Rs. 28,00,000/- and manpower at the level of Project Associate. In this project Dr Narayanan will develop a low cost instrument to study oxygen airglow at 630 nm wavelength emanating from 200 – 300 km above the surface of the earth. He will also develop software to efficiently analyse the voluminous datasets involving machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms.
Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS has been awarded the Krea Research Fellowship 2025-26 for a project entitled ‘Multi-wavelength Airglow Imaging with Low-cost cameras (MAIL)’ with a support of Rs 3,50,000/-. The previous year Dr Narayanan developed low-cost cameras to observe a broad band of near infrared emissions known as OH airglow. This is a sequel to that project. In the present project, the team will try to measure individual airglow spectral lines (contrary to the broad band emissions) from the edge of space.
Krea faculty members, Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS; Dr R S Sathya Saminadan, Associate Professor of Practice, Marketing, IFMR GSB; Professor Lakshmi Kumar, Dean, IFMR GSB,Dr Aishwarya Krishnaswamy, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Finance IFMR GSB and Professor Vijayalakshmi C, Professor, OB & HR participated and spoke at the event conducted by IN-SPACe in connection with LEAD at Krea University. The event was IN-SPACe Short-term Skill Development Course on “Entrepreneurship Development for the Space Sector”. IN-SPACe is the newly created authorising agency under privatisation drive of Space Sector for approving space sector activities in India including that of ISRO. The skill development programme was held from 31 August to 5 September 2025. Dr Lakshmi Narayanan was also invited to release the abstract book along with Shri Kiran Kumar, Former Chairman ISRO, Dr Vinod Kumar, Director of IN-SPACe and other dignitaries.
An article titled Flow in The Living Tradition of Kabir in Malwa by Dr Dipanjali Deka has been published in the August Issue of Hakara bilingual online journal, centred on the theme of Flow. In the essay she examines flow, memory, and the question of “living” in the oral song tradition of Kabir, through the reading of a musical exchange between renowned folk singer Prahlad Singh Tipanya and his Guru, Chenaji Maru.
हाकारा । hākārā (ISSN 2581-9976), a peer-reviewed journal, is included in the University Grants Commission (UGC) CARE-LIST.
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS delivered the online public lecture ‘Uttam Kumar’s Last Laugh, Or a Talk Full of Ifs and Buts’, on the occasion of the centenary of the Bengali screen icon, organised by Manikchak College, Gour Banga University, Bengal.
Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh Associate Professor of Practice, Literature and Global Arts, SIAS was part of a session titled “Women and India-Pakistan Conflict”, organised by Noor e Emaan. The session reflected on recent and past conflicts between India and Pakistan through a feminist lens centering women, gender and marginalised groups.
An article titled Simpler, not fairer: Why GST 2.0 misses the point, by Dr Jyoti Kumari, Assistant Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance, IFMR GSB, has been published in Deccan Herald.
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS, delivered a talk in Kolkata on 22 August at the invitation of DAG (formerly Delhi Art Gallery). The talk, on the idea of singularity in image tropes, was occasioned by the DAG exhibition Light and Shadow: Satyajit Ray Through Nemai Ghosh’s Lens and was titled ‘An Eye for an Eye, or Watching Ray Seeing’.