Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS has co-authored an article in Down To Earth’s ‘State of the Environment 2026’ report titled India’s Climate Apocalypse?
The article discusses how regional hotspots of climate change are emerging across the country and this demands regionally tailored adaptation strategies contingent not only on the nature of climate change but on the exposure and vulnerability of local communities.
Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda, Associate Professor, Politics, SIAS has authored an essay titled Public Good or Private Gain? The Battle for Andhra’s Medical Colleges in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 61, No 2 (2026).
Abstract
The controversy over the transfer of seventeen newly sanctioned government medical colleges in Andhra Pradesh to private operators under a Public–Private Partnership (PPP) model has ignited a broad-based movement cutting across political and social divides. At its core, the dispute raises fundamental questions about whether education and healthcare should remain rights of citizenship or be commodified for private profit. The article situates this conflict within the longer trajectory of N Chandrababu Naidu’s market-led PPP vision, contrasting it with YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s welfare-driven public investment. By highlighting issues of redistribution, reservations, and democratic accountability, it argues that the battle is less about fiscal pragmatism and more about safeguarding the moral and constitutional compass of governance.
Naveen M, Teaching Fellow, Marketing & Communication and Vidhya Satish Kumar, Teaching Fellow, OB & HR, under the guidance and support of Dr Pallavi Pandey, Associate Professor, OB & HR, all from IFMR GSB have authored an article published in The Economic Times – HRWorld.
The title of the article is Silent Gatekeepers: How Boss-Level Bias Shapes Who Gets Hired.
Brief about the Article:
The article critically examines how hiring authority in many organisations subtly shifts from structured HR processes to functional heads, where unconscious comfort-based preferences—related to familiarity, region, language, and accent—often override merit and interview performance. Drawing on global research and Indian workplace evidence, the article argues that hiring bias is not merely individual but structural in nature. It concludes with a practical, HR-led framework to redesign hiring systems so that merit, diversity of thought, and cultural contribution replace familiarity as default decision criteria.
Dr Praveen Bhagawan M, Associate Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance and Area Chair – Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance presented two research papers on Bankruptcy Reforms, co-authored with Soumyabrata Basu, Centre Research Fellow Misra Centre for Financial Markets and Economy at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad and Dr Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Economics and Chairperson – PhD Programme at India Finance Conference (IFC) at IIM Visakhapatnam between 18-20 December 2025. He also discussed two papers and chaired two technical sessions at IFC 2025.
Professor Jayaram Ramakrishnan, Professor of Practice, IFMR GSB has authored a book titled, Enterprise Performance & Risk Management for MSMEs – A Primer on behalf of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICMAI). The updated edition of the book was released on 11 January 26 at the 63rd National conference of The Institute of Cost accountants of India (ICMAI) at Coimbatore. The book was reviewed by leading academics and industry professionals including Professor G Balasubramanian, Senior Professor and Advisor, IFMR GSB.
The book deals with development of a Management Accounting framework for MSMEs. This was motivated by the existing low uptake and inconsistent use of Management Accounting Practices by MSMEs as observed and suggested by prior research in an Indian context. MSMEs were often found failing to leverage adequately. the potential of management accounting for helping them achieve their financial objectives (primarily profitability and liquidity) while also adequately insuring against risks.
Professor Chandrasekaran N, Professor, Operations and Strategy, Area Chair – Strategic Management & Chairperson – Executive MBA programme, IFMR GSB and Dr Suresh G, Assistant Professor, Economics, IFMR GSB along with Dr Ramasubramaniam, have authored a book chapter titled Role of Technology in Sustainable Logistics and Inventory Management with Reference to the Food Corporation of India. The chapter has been published in the forthcoming book A Circular Economy for Manufacturing Waste Management: Pathway Towards Sustainability, published by Routledge.
In Author Prajwal Parajuly romanticises Chennai winter and rightfully so, Prajwal Parajuly, Assistant Professor of Practice, Creative Writing, SIAS writes for The Hindu on how for him December in Chennai is less winter and a smug, perfectly timed takeover of sabhas, canteens, coffee shops, art spaces.
Professor Kai Easton, Professor, Literature & Visual Cultures, SIAS has penned a tribute and visual travelogue for South African author, Zoe Wicomb, published in Wasafiri, the international magazine of contemporary writing.
Dr Shiv Issar, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology, SIAS recently co-authored a book chapter titled Labor’s Odyssey Through Algorithmic Systems published in the The Sage Handbook of Digital Labour.
The abstract for the chapter: Algorithmic systems bear testimony to the sweeping transformation of labor in the 21st century. Not only do they mediate the way work is executed but they also increasingly define what constitutes possible work. They stand in direct relation to the ways labor is identified, hired, governed, performed, and evaluated. We provide a coherent framework for the emerging research around digital labor by exploring the use of algorithmic systems across four distinct dimensions of labor: algorithmic hiring, algorithmic regulation, algorithmic content moderation, and algorithmic evaluation of labor.
Neha Mishra, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP was invited by the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME) to conduct a workshop on ‘Detecting Generative AI-Use in Academic Writing’ on 23 December 2025.
In the face of rising (un)declared generative AI-use in scholarly communities and the absence of reliable tools to detect such use, Neha Mishra was invited to conduct a workshop for its working editors on developing strategies for detecting AI-use. By comparing AI-generated samples with those written by humans in the field of medical ethics, the workshop a) identified genre- and context-agnostic hallmarks of AI-use, such as specific sentence structures, generic, non-specific content, and lack of narrative logic and b) indicated the need for developing similar strategies for identifying context-specific hallmarks of AI-use.
