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.
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.
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’.
Dr Sabah Siddiqui, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS presented a paper at the IACS 2025 Conference in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand on July 24, 2025. The paper was titled ‘Faith Healing and Distributed Subjectivity’.
Dr Siddiqui also wrote a commentary piece on the Anti-Superstition Law titled Superstition, Science, and the limits of Law that was featured by Mad in South Asia Expert Opinions blog.
Dr Suresh Govindapuram, Assistant Professor of Economics, IFMR GSB presented a paper on Women’s Financial Inclusion and Economic Development: Evidence from India at the 23rd Annual Conference and 30th Anniversary of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies from 22-25 July 2025 at Luxembourg.
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.
Dr Praveen Bhagawan, Associate Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance, IFMR GSB presented a research paper (co-authored with Dr Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Economics, IFMR GSB and PhD scholar Soumyabrata Basu ) titled ‘Creditor Rights and Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Quasi-natural Experiment in India’ at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC). After the presentation, he also interacted with PhD students of IIMC and provided feedback on their papers.
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.
