Professor Jayaram Ramakrishnan, Professor of Practice, Finance, IFMR GSB, delivered a webinar titled, ‘Is Activity Based Costing (ABC) for MSMEs too?’ to the members of ICAI on 7 February 2026. The session was organised on behalf of the MSME and Start up Promotion Board (MSPB) of The Institute of Cost Accountants of India.
Sathyanarayanan Ramachandran,Sundram Fasteners Associate Professor, Marketing, IFMR GSB received the Best Paper Award for his research paper, ‘Value Migration in the Indian Cinema Industry and the Metaphors of Change’ (co-authored with Dr Venkatesakumar Ramakrishnan and Dr S A Senthil Kumar, Pondicherry University), at the Indian Institute of Management Ranchi (IIM Ranchi) International Conference on Indian Cinema: Social Realities & Managerial Insights, held on 20–21 February 2026.
The paper offers a rigorous analysis of the structural transformations reshaping the Indian cinema ecosystem in the post-COVID era. It delineates the strategic imperatives confronting the theatrical exhibition sector, particularly multiplex chains, amid the accelerated rise of OTT platforms, the rapid penetration of affordable digital devices, and declining data costs. The study further conceptualizes industry evolution and strategic responses through rich metaphors of change and systematically maps value migration patterns, examining shifts in consumption genres and the evolving vehicles through which cinematic content is experienced.
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS delivered an invited talk titled ‘Physical limits to the circular economy’ at the XIth Biennial Climate Conference at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai on 20 February 2026. The conference is titled, ‘Climate action, sustainability, and equity in a VUCA World: Development Pathways for India and the Developing World’.
A chapter authored by Dr Avinash Ediga,Teaching Fellow, Sociology and Social Anthropology, SIAS titled, Becoming ‘Serious Men’:Politics of Emotion and the Disciplining of Desires in an Indian Coaching Town, has been published in an edited volume titled Classed Emotions: Navigating Social Class and Emotions in the Urban Indian and Diasporic Contexts.
Sathyanarayanan Ramachandran, Sundram Fasteners Associate Professor, Marketing, IFMR GSB and Professor Chandrasekaran Nagarajan, Professor, Operations and Strategy, IFMR GSB have authored and presented a case study at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM Nagpur) Case & Research Conference 2026, held from 7-8 February 2026. The case study, ‘Deepak Cell City: Serving with heart,’ tracked several business and ethical dilemmas the founders faced and examined them through various management frameworks, including the effectuation theory of entrepreneurship, service-dominant (S-D) logic, business ethics, and strategic alternatives.
Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Krea-CWP and Associate Professor, Literature, SIAS, and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP facilitated multiple sessions at the Alliance Literary Festival, organised by Alliance University, Bengaluru, on 19 and 20 February 2026.
Sayantan Datta moderated a conversation with Kalki Subramaniam, transgender-rights activist, writer, and member of the National Council for Transgender Persons, and also conducted a Science Writing workshop on 19 February 2026 introducing participants to communicating scientific findings to non-specialist audiences.
Dr Anannya led a workshop titled ‘The Long and Short of it: Writing Haiku’ on 20 February 2026 introducing participants to the rules of Haiku writing and how it invites play in its imagistic word formations.
Dr Vivek Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, SIAS presented his paper ‘Kant in India’ at International Seminar on Celebrating 300 Years of Immanuel Kant organised by the Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in collaboration with Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR) on 14 February 2026. In the presentation, he traced the reception of Kant’s philosophy in India historically.
Dr Venugopal Maddipati, Associate Professor, History, SIAS delivered the keynote address for a conference titled ‘Bridging Horizons: The Confluence of Technology and Humanities: A Tribute to Prof Mahajan & Prof Dhanagare’ in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in IIT Kanpur. In his talk he spoke about the value of witnessing and evidentiary claims and the writing of geological histories in the Deccan in the 19th century.
Dr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, SIAS, delivered an online talk titled ‘Graph-Based and Machine Learning Approaches to Understanding Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries’ at IIIT Hyderabad as part of their Cognitive Science Seminar series on 4 February 2026. The talk included the work of few students from the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences.
Dr Praveen Bhagawan M, Associate Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance, IFMR GSB, has been acknowledged as one of the top 27 contributing reviewers for the Journal of Business Ethics in 2025, included in the prestigious Financial Times (FT) 50 journal list.
