An article titled Empowerment Under Siege: Hidden Barriers Stall India’s Women, by Dr Jyoti Kumari, Assistant Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance, IFMR GSB, has been published in Deccan Herald.
Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP has authored a piece for The Hindu titled How safe AI is in healthcare depends on the humans of healthcare.
They have also penned a piece for The Hindu titled Yeast shows physics can give rise to multicellular life sans mutations.
Dr I Iyyappan, Post-Doctoral Fellow, SIAS, presented his research on “Nonlinear Refrigerator with Finite-Sized Cold Bath” at the 10th Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting, organised by the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru, from 23 to 25 April, 2025.
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS, has co-authored an article titled Who is Really Developed with Dr Soumyajit Bhar, Assistant Professor, School for Liberal Studies for Down to Earth. The authors challenge the conventional notions of development.
Professor Akhila Ramnarayan, Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature and the Arts, SIAS has penned a review essay on Robert Macfarlane’s new book, titled ‘Is a River Alive?’: Radical resistance and solidarity between humans and the natural world in Scroll.in.
Robert Macfarlane is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people, and place. He is the Professor of Literature and the Environmental Humanities, and Fellow of Emmanuel College, at the University of Cambridge.
Dr Jayaram Ramakrishnan, Professor of Practice, IFMR GSB, has authored an article on Cost Management for manufacturing SMEs – A Framework. The same has been published in MSME Tidbits, the bi-monthly flagship journal of the MSME & Startup Promotion Board of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICMAI), in their June edition.
Abhayraj Naik, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, Environmental Studies SIAS offered an international exploratory workshop on ‘Introduction to Climate Law in India’ at the University of Tuebingen on 30 May 2025. He also presented a talk titled ‘What Comes Next? Exploring Systemic Change Possibilities in India following the Declaration of a Constitutional Climate Right’ at the Workshop on “Climate Litigation in India, Germany and Europe, and the Potential for Mutual Learning” organised by the Faculty of Law, University of Regensburg on 2 and 3 June 2025.
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS has penned a review of Professor Bishnu Mohapatra’s latest volume of poetry, Rain Incarnations. Published in The Scroll, the article is titled The umbrellas are on a protest march’: Bishnu Mohapatra’s poems on rain for a desolate May. The poems have been translated from Odia by Aparna Uppaluri.
Professor Bishnu is Professor, Politics, SIAS and Director – Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr Joya John, Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS presented a paper on 30 May 2025, titled ‘Yeh Prithvi Rahegi: Planetarity in the Non-Anglophone Imaginary’. The paper was part of a 3-day panel titled Comparing Hindi Literature: Then and Now in the World at the Annual Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference. Dr John’s paper analysed how contemporary Hindi poets have drawn on environmental and climate change discourse to craft new metaphors and figures in poetry. Through a close reading of the figure of Prithvi, she argued that both scientific ideas of planetary habitability and older cosmological and affective senses of the Earth will continue to mediate cultural knowledge of climate change.
Dr Vijaya C, Assistant Professor, Finance, IFMR GSB presented a research paper titled ‘Dynamic Connectedness of Volatility among ESG ETFs, ESG Indices And Cap-Weighted Indices’ at the Global Banking and Finance Association (GLOBAFA) Conference, held from 30-31 May 2025 at Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary. The paper examines the dynamic connectedness between ESG ETFs and market indices in developed and emerging markets. It also determines how the nature of the market and the theme of ESG ETFs impact volatility persistence.
The inaugural annual Global Banking and Finance Association (GLOBAFA) Conference brought together experts, scholars, and practitioners from around the world to share their insights and research findings in the field of banking and finance. The conference was held in collaboration with the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) and was hosted by Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary.
