Kaustav Mehta, Teaching Fellow, Data Science, SIAS’ undergraduate capstone thesis titled ‘Exploring comorbidity networks in mild traumatic brain injury subjects through graph theory: a traumatic brain injury model systems study’ has been published in BMC Neurology. The paper is co-authored by Dr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, SIAS. Read more
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Dr Proma Raychaudhury pens an op-ed in Anandabazar Patrika
Dr Proma Raychaudhury, Assistant Professor, Politics, SIAS recently published an op-ed in Bengali at Anandabazar Patrika, an analysis of the Trump-Zelensky interaction through the performative approach to populist politics. Read here. Dr Raychaudhary also delivered an invited lecture at Adamas University’s Guest Lecture Series on Exploring Women’s Participation and Representation in Indian Politics on 10 …
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Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda publishes an essay in the Frontline
Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda, Associate Professor, Politics, SIAS has published an essay, Telangana’s SC subclassification risks reinforcing old inequities in Frontline (10 March 2025). About the EssayFollowing the Supreme Court’s verdict on the sub-classification of SC reservations, the Telangana government took the initiative to implement this by categorising 59 Dalit castes into three groups based on …
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Professor Anil Srinivasan receives the Anjali Khandwalla Memorial Award
Professor Anil Srinivasan, Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature and the Arts, SIAS, received the iconic Anjali Khandwalla Memorial Award. The award, instituted and presented by Dr Pradeep Khandwalla, former Director of IIM Ahmedabad, is given annually to an outstanding teacher or educator. Nominations are submitted by scholars, and the jury consists exclusively of teachers and …
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Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury writes for The Wire and Sangbad Pratidin
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS wrote about the sophistication of a psychoanalytical approach to stardom, and the unique daring of its leading actor in Satyajit Ray’s Nayak (The Hero, 1966), starring the Bengali screen icon Uttam Kumar, which was re-released after a digital restoration across the country on February 21 2025. Read more The same film occasioned a …
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Dr Rangachary Kommanduri publishes paper in the Neurocomputing journal
Dr Rangachary Kommanduri’s paper titled, ‘STAD-AI: Spatio-temporal Anomaly Detection in Videos with Attentive Dual-Stage Integration’ has been published in the Neurocomputing journal (Q1, Impact Factor = 5.5). This work presents STAD-AI, a novel framework for video anomaly detection that combines spatio-temporal attention-based feature extraction with an attentive U-Net architecture for precise anomaly prediction. Dr Kommanduri is Visiting Assistant …
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Dipanjali Deka participates in the Malwa Mahila Kabir Yatra
Dipanjali Deka, Visiting Assistant Professor, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy (Krea-CWP) was a guest musician at the Malwa Mahila Kabir Yatra, held from 28 February to 2 March 2025, in Madhya Pradesh. Malwa Mahila Kabir Yatra is a travelling folk music festival that celebrates women’s voices and the music and poetry of the mystic poets of …
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Dr Chirag Dhara delivers a talk at IISER Pune
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS delivered a talk at IISER, Pune based on their recently published paper, ‘A scalability-centric perspective on global human development within environmental limits’ on 28 February 2025. The talk was delivered as part of the ECS Seminar and was titled, ‘What levels of development can humanity “sustainably” aspire to?’
Dr Srajana Kaikini authors a book chapter as part of the book Nation, Region, Modernity: The Art of K. Venkatappa, Routledge India (2025)
Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, SIAS has penned a book chapter ‘The Plant Studies of K. Venkatappa : The Artist’s Kinship with Nature, Truth, and Rationality’ is published as part of the book Nation, Region, Modernity: The Art of K. Venkatappa, Routledge India (2025) edited by Deeptha Achar and N Pushpamala. In her chapter, Dr Kaikini situates the …
Dr Chirag Dhara delivers a talk at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
Abstract of the talk Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS delivered a talk at the Prof R Ananthakrishnan Colloquium at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune on 25 February 2025. The talk was titled “Is India a good or bad performer on climate change?” Abstract of the talk Climate performance indices are widely used to evaluate …
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