Penning Tales

Dr Gayathri Sampath, Associate Professor, Strategy and Chairperson – MBA Programme at IFMR GSB recently penned a short story, now included as part of an anthology. Mr and Mrs Rosewood is a collection of the winning short stories written by writers across the globe for the contest organised by WriteFluence. The book consists of 16 literary pieces that were selected from several submissions that had been received from all over the world for the contest.

Chapters in Learning from Global Arts

The students of SIAS, Concepts in Aesthetics II that is offered by Dr Srajana Kaikini to students of Global Arts, Philosophy and Literature, visited the exhibition Visible/Invisible at the Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore. They engaged with the curator Dr Arnika Ahldag around the ideas and the works at the museum through the lens of gender, its social life, its conceptual ironies and the possibilities and impossibilities of representation in relation to the tasks of the artist/curators.

Performance for a Cause

Anil Srinivasan, renowned pianist and Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature & the Arts, SIAS joined by bassist Naveen Napier, percussionist Krishna Kishor, and award-winning vocalist Sai Vignesh, conducted a blindfolded performance. The music concert was held in Hyderabad on 24 August 2023 and was organised by IC3 Institute, aimed at contributing towards counselling for children.

Words of Wisdom

Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy     ( Krea-CWP) was invited by the Jindal School of Art and Architecture, Jindal Global University to conduct an online writing workshop for design and architecture students of the Form and Structure Atelier. Titled, Full-on-Feelz: Writing Evocative Descriptions, the session was held on 4 August 2023

Of Awards and Recognitions

Congratulations are in order. Ritika Yadav, Cohort of 2024 at IFMR GSB has been announced as the winner of Live Project by Tally Solutions. She will be awarded a cash prize of Rs 10,000.

Live Project by Tally Solutions focused on the Big Belly of Indian Businesses: the informal and unregulated sector of businesses exclusively managed by the owners, who manage everything from supply to administration themselves. For ease, they called them micro businesses. The project entailed preparing a detailed business plan which covered areas that identified the triggers/barriers to, needs of and product scope of product adoption for micro businesses, product proposition and a go-to-market (GTM) plan.