Category: Faculty & Staff Spotlight

Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP has authored an article titled A random number generator using quantum physics and a blockchain published by The Hindu. While a new study isn’t the first to describe how quantum phenomena can be used in the service of generating random numbers, the technique incorporates a cryptographic tool called blockchains in their protocol. This makes the technique fully traceable and certifiable by independent parties, making it the first of its kind.

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​Dr Arindam Chatterjee, Postdoctoral Fellow in Biological Sciences, SIAS has been elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (FLS) as of 2 July 2025.
The Linnean Society was founded in 1788, and is the oldest learned society devoted to the science of natural history.

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Karma and Lola, the next book in line by ​Prajwal Parajuly, Assistant Professor of Practice, Creative Writing, SIAS will now be published in 2026 by Tate Publishing in the United Kingdom, HarperCollins in the Indian Subcontinent and Nepalaya in Nepal. Illustrated by Ubahang Nembang, Karma and Lola is about an eight-year-old who lives in a whimsical hotel in the Himalayas with her parents and beloved dog.

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Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Centre for Writing & Pedagogy (CWP) and Associate Professor of Literature​, SIAS has penned an article in The Wire titled Large Servings of Slop: Writing and Research in the Age of AI.

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​On her recent official visit to Colombo Dr Proma Raychaudhury, Assistant Professor, Politics​, SIAS represented Krea University at the 2025 Scales of Governance Conference (jointly organised by the Bandaranaike Academy for Leadership and Public Policy (BALPP), Colombo, and Sciences Po, Paris, a partner university of Krea). At the conference. Dr Raychaudhury presented a paper titled, ‘Sub-nationalism and (Gendered) Social Welfare Regimes: A Study of West Bengal under the All-India Trinamool Congress Government’.

Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP has authored an editorial titled Recording sex and gender data in clinical settings published by the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. In the editorial, they highlight potential issues in the collection of sex data in clinical settings, and suggest that an accurate, ethical, and transgender- and intersex-affirmative medical practice entails the mandatory collection of both sex and gender data, and in more than two categories.

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