December 11, 2023
Under the mentorship of Dr Soumya Pal, Assistant Professor of Economics at IFMR GSB, Krea University, Namrata Gupta, Shivam Khandelwal, and Bandi Sai Krishna, from the MBA Cohort of 2024, successfully advanced to the zonal round of the RBI Policy Challenge 2023. The event took place at the Reserve Bank Staff College in Chennai on December 11, 2023.
Dr Panchali Ray, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, and Associate Dean (Academic), SIAS, Krea University has been awarded the Journal of International Women’s Studies Fellowship for writing an essay titled Intimate Statecraft: Love-Jihad on the Borderlands of India. The essay will study the phenomenon of right-wing communal mobilisation on the borderlands of West Bengal, India, around inter-faith marriage between Muslim men and Hindu women. Dr Panchali Ray will examine how the trope of “love jihad” is being used both as an electoral strategy to win votes by the incumbent central government as well as a call for increasing securitization of the India-Bangladesh border.
The article, The exciting world of EdTech by Sathyanarayanan R, Sundram Fasteners Associate Professor, Marketing, IFMR GSBhas been featured in MiTran Global Positivity Hub, the weekly newsletter of MiTran Global. MiTran Global provides scientific review, analysis, reports and positive mind transformation courses for K12 students globally. Backed with the management team which together has over 100 plus man-years of global experience in the field of Education, Coaching, Mind Transformation, Counselling for school students, teachers, and parents.
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Anil Srinivasan, Associate Professor of Practice, Literature and the Arts, SIAS, Krea University was honoured by UNICEF for his work with children and bringing about peace for the community. The event was held in Mumbai where representatives of the UN Secretary General’s office and office bearers of UNICEF and other organisations, were present.
An article by Prof Ramachandra Guha, Distinguished University Professor at SIAS, Krea University, titled Are bad ideas at the root of the ecological crisis? was published in Telegraph India andScroll.
The article explores the role of bad ideas in the genesis of the ecological crisis. Centred on the book Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis of Modern Man (1968) by Prof Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Prof Guha delves into the historical and cultural roots of environmental degradation, highlighting flawed concepts such as the separation of humans from nature and the prioritization of economic growth over environmental sustainability, that have contributed significantly to the current environmental challenges we face.
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Dr Panchali Ray, Associate Dean (Academic) and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at SIAS, Krea University published an essay on feminine intimacy and possibilities of impossible friendships in Qurbatein, the bi-annual publication by the Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality at Ashoka University. The essay Friendship Sans Symmetry– The Unlawfulness of Feminine Intimacy is part of an issue titled (un)desirable Histories.
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Restoring the Planet Will Need More than a Climate Price Tag, another article co-authored by Dr Chirag Dhara, was published in Scientific American. The article argues against an overly simplistic approach to addressing climate change, known as carbon reductionism, which focuses solely on reducing carbon emissions without considering broader ecological and social contexts.
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Dr Jayasankar Ramanathan, Associate Professor, Marketing and Prof Chandrasekaran Nagarajan, Professor, Operations Management, IFMR GSB, Krea University have unveiled a new case study on Harvard Business Publishing Education. The case titled, Dabba Chetty Shop: Strengthening a Niche Market or Expanding Internationally, analyses a small unique retail shop in Chennai. The case can be taught to undergraduate and postgraduate business administration students in various courses, including service management, operations management, and services marketing.
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Dr Joya John, Assistant Professor of the Literature and the Arts, SIAS, Krea University authored an article titled Adivasi Poetry: The Poetics of Indigeneity in Contemporary India, published in The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures
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Dr Suresh Govindapuram, Assistant Professor of Economics at IFMR GSB, Krea University authored a paper titled Financial Inclusion and Its Impact on Fertility: An Empirical Investigation, published in the Indian Journal of Human Development in Sage Journals
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