Dr Praveen Bhagawan, Associate Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance, IFMR GSB presented one of his research papers (co-authored with Dr Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Economics, IFMR GSB and Navya Muricken, faculty member at ICFAI Business School, Bangalore) ‘Does Female Presence on Corporate Boards matter for Firm`s Cost of Equity? Evidence from Indian Firms’ at the 2025 Vietnam Symposium in Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Innovation (VSEFI2025), which was held on 10 and 11 July 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Professor Chandrasekaran N was a speaker at Annual Regional Director’s Conclave 2025 organised by Institute of Directors. He spoke on the discussion topic, Impact Assessment: The Backbone of CSR Accountability.
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS has co-authored a chapter with Dr Rajendran Narayanan, Azim Premji University, in Daniel Noemi Voionmaa edited World Cup! History, Politics, and Art of the Beautiful Game (Vernon Press, 2025). Bringing together studies of footballing history in the subcontinent, planetary sociology of fandom, literary and cinematic texts, and anecdotal and experiential observations, the chapter provocatively conceives the idea of ‘fanship’, an imagined citizenship that fans of a footballing minion seek of a footballing powerhouse during the carnivalesque heterotopia of the football World Cup, and what that means in a country incrementally in the stranglehold of ultra-jingoism, cricketing and otherwise.
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.
On his academic visit to Canada, Professor Govindarajan T R, Visiting Professor, Physics delivered a talk on ‘Fuzzy dark matter and primordial black hole’ at McGill University, Montreal on 15 July 2025 and ‘Overluminous Supernovae and Hubble tension’ at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo on 21 July 2025.
Fuzzy dark matter and primordial black hole The center of most galaxies have a super massive black hole whose presence has remained a mystery. Now we have evidence that galaxies existed as early as 400 million years after the big bang. At the same time 90% of galaxy mass is made up of dark matter. This also posed problems in identifying the nature of the particle which does not interact with normal matter except through gravity. But it aids in the formation and stability of the galaxy. Ultralight particles are one of the promising candidates. We propose one such candidate which can at the same time provide some link to understand the supermassive black holes through providing seeds for primordial blackholes.
Overluminous Supernovae and Hubble tension Type Ia supernovae (SNe\,Ia) serve as crucial cosmological distance indicators due to their empirical consistency in decline rates with peak luminosity. This facilitates finding $H_0$. Nevertheless, a statistically significant difference persists between $H_0$ values derived from early and late-time measurements, a phenomenon known as the Hubble tension. Furthermore, recent observations have identified a subset of over-luminous SNe\,Ia, characterized by peak luminosities exceeding the nominal range and faster decline rates. These discoveries raise questions regarding the reliability of SNe\,Ia as standard candles in measuring cosmological distances. We present the Bayesian analysis of over-luminous SNe\,Ia and show that they yield lower $H_0$ estimates, exhibiting closer concordance with $H_0$ estimates derived from early-universe data. This investigation potentially represents a step toward addressing the Hubble tension.
Sara Abraham, Visiting Faculty, SIAS has authored an article titled Tamil Nadu’s migrant worker survey: Missing the crucial questions, and answers for Frontline – The Hindu. The article discussed a survey undertaken by the Tamil Nadu government to understand the work and living conditions of 811 inter-State migrant workers in Chennai and its surroundings. The author shares how the survey finally acknowledges millions of invisible workers but ignores illegal recruitment networks and employer violations that keep them poor.
From 16 to 21 June 16 2025, Dr Sarabjeet Dhody Natesan, Associate Professor of Economics, SIAS participated in the Levy Economics Institute’s Summer Seminar at Bard College, New York. This immersive programme focused on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), financial instability, and heterodox macroeconomic policy.
The seminar, organised by the Levy Economics Institute and led by Professors Pavlina Tcherneva and L. Randall Wray, gathered an international group of scholars and academics for a week of intense lectures, workshops, and collaborative research. During this time, participants had the privilege of engaging with distinguished thinkers like James K. Galbraith, Randall Wray, and Fadhel Kaboub, as well as prominent researchers including Scott Fullwiler, Yan Liang, Yeva Nersisyan, Ndongo Samba Sylla, and Rohan Grey.
The topics covered were diverse and complex, ranging from Minskyan approaches to financial fragility and stock-flow consistent modeling to exploring monetary sovereignty in the Global South. The participants also discussed the practical applications of Job Guarantee Schemes, public provisioning, ecological finance, industrial policy, and effective policy responses to the fractured global order. The programme offered a comprehensive blend of theoretical insights and practical policy solutions rooted in Keynesian and post-Keynesian frameworks.
The seminar also coincided with the 32nd Annual Levy Conference, which provided a valuable space to address urgent global challenges—from climate transitions to structural inequality.
This was a thoughtfully designed space for learning and collaboration, furthering our understanding of how macroeconomics intersects with public policy in meaningful and impactful ways.
Dr Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Economics, IFMR GSB and PhD scholar Soumyabrata Basu presented their research paper (co-authored with Dr Praveen Bhagawan, Associate Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance, IFMR GSB) related to the impact of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code on Indian non-financial firms at the 7th International Conference on Financial Markets & Corporate Finance (ICFMCF 2025) held at IIT Kharagpur and the 34th European Financial Management Association 2025 Annual Meeting held at the American College of Greece, respectively.
SIAS alum Tanishka Nandakumar and student Hriday Shankar are conducting a research under the guidance of Dr Swayam Sampurna Panigrahi, Assistant Professor, Operations, IFMR GSB and have presented the working paper on Recycling of Lithium Ion Batteries: The Key to Sustainable EV Growth at ” SOM 2024: XXVII Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management “, Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad held from, 19-21 December 2024. The same research was also presented at the “FLAME Undergraduate Research Day 2025” held at FLAME University, Pune, on 19 March 2025.
In Author Prajwal Parajuly discovers the organised charm of Sri City, he pens a delightful account of stepping into Sri City — a strangely cosmopolitan experience marked by the discovery of good ramen, slithering snakes, and the feeling of living in a bizarre little American sliver of India.
