SIAS alum and LINC Fellow publishes conference paper on Springer Nature Link

Sparsh Makharia, an SIAS alum and LINC Fellow, has published a conference paper titled Tractography-Driven Synthetic Data Generation for Fiber Bundle Segmentation in Tracer Histology, co-authored with his supervisors, on Springer Nature Link. Read more
Professor Anil Srinivasan receives Padma Vibhushan Dr Rajagopala Chidambaram Memorial Award

Professor, Anil Srinivasan, Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature and the Arts, SIAS, received the Padma Vibhushan Dr Rajagopala Chidambaram Memorial Award on 26 September 2026, conferred by the Rasika Ranjani Sabha, Mumbai, in recognition of his contributions to education and society.
SIAS Faculty at ICAS:MP Workshop

SIAS faculty Dr Geeti Das, Assistant Professor, Politics, Dr Panchali Ray, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Gender Studies, and Dr Sabah Siddiqui, Associate Professor, Psychology, participated in the ICAS:MP workshop, “Southern” Theory Formation: Maghrebian and Indian Approaches, held in New Delhi from 24–26 September 2026. As part of the workshop, Dr Sabah Siddiqui presented a paper […]
Dr Preeti Sampat leads reading group discussion at Hyderabad Urban Lab

Dr Preeti Sampat, Associate Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology, SIAS, was invited to lead a reading group discussion around social movements at Hyderabad Urban Lab’s Chabutra on Collective Action on: ‘What do we think of Cockroaches?’ on 21 September 2026.
Dr Rakesh Sengupta publishes a paper in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS has published a research paper titled Long-Range Temporal Correlations in Enumeration: A Theoretical Link from On-Center Off-Surround Recurrent Dynamics to DFA of Reaction Times, in Proceedings of International Conference on Computing Systems and Intelligent Applications (ComSIA 2026), Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (Vol 2058), Springer, Cham. Research […]
Dr Venugopal Maddipati delivers a lecture to students of Delhi University

Dr Venugopal Maddipati, Associate Professor, History, SIAS gave a lecture titled, “Gandhi’s Death and Architectural History” for Historiologus – Knowledge in Narratives, to a collective of undergraduate history students of Delhi University, on 23 September 2026. Know more
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury presents a paper at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Associate Professor, Literature, SIAS, presented a paper ‘Gritty, Spritty Vorti-City’ at the Groove the City – Move the Streets conference at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, recently. The paper was part of the panel ‘Listening to Bengal’s Twentieth Century: The Street, the Parlour, the Studio and States of In-Betweeness.’
Dr Nidhin Donald illustrates Ek Gudiya ya Chaar Kitabein by Pratham Books

The print version of Ek Gudiya ya Chaar Kitabein? (A Doll or Four Books?), illustrated by Dr Nidhin Donald, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology is now out in Hindi (original) English, Tamil, Kannada and Marathi. Published by Pratham Books, the book is written by Asha Singh. Know more
Dr Srajana Kaikini’s new book, published by Routledge

A Metaphysics for the Curatorial, by Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, SIAS, has been published by Routledge. This book is a philosophical investigation of the concept of curation and its significance to the field of aesthetics. This book is a philosophical investigation of the concept of curation and its significance to the field of […]
SIAS UG Student co-authors new preprint with faculty
Rakshitaasai Karthinarayanan, SIAS Cohort of 2024-28, has co-authored a new preprint titled Arousal as competition, valence as drive: a two-control account of affective modulation in the magnitude system with Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS. The research, from the Computational Cognition Lab, bridges cognitive psychology and computational modeling. The paper explores how our emotional […]