Professor Mukund Padmanabhan, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, SIAS has penned an Opinion piece in ThePrint titled, How did we miss the Vijay phenomenon in Tamil Nadu? The article discusses how in a state where one of the two dominant Dravidian parties, the DMK and the AIADMK, has been in power since 1967, the TVK’s focus …
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Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS and Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh, Associate Professor of Practice,Literature and Global Arts, SIAS will be part of various conference presentations at the ‘European Geosciences Union General Assembly’ (EGU 2026). EGU is a major conference in the field of Climate and Earth Sciences, and is being held in Vienna …
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Krea-CWP faculty members Neha Mishra, Assistant Professor of Practice; Rahul Pillai, Faculty Teaching Associate, and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice conducted a two-day reading-writing workshop for students of the Centre for Women’s Studies, Pondicherry University. The online workshop was titled ‘Old Worlds, New Insights: Reading, Writing, & Rewriting in Response to Research Questions. About …
Abhayraj Naik, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, Environmental Studies, SIAS has co-authored an essay titled Infinite Reservoir of Agency in the recently-released Higher Studies Toolkit for Critical Ocean Literacy (OCEAN / UNI 2026). Abstract Amidst the lush rice fields of Andhra Pradesh, Abhayraj Naik reflects in an experiential essay on the interconnectedness between humans and …
A research article by Dr Mohammed Sajjad Hussain, Post-Doctoral Fellow,Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences titled Delivering Food, Navigating Stigma has been published in the journal Labor History. Read more
The latest novel by Dr R S Sathya Saminadan, Associate Professor of Practice, Marketing, IFMR GSB named The Kingmaker Conspiracy, has been featured in Gurgaon Times ( part of The Times of India) as part of their World Book Day special highlighting must-read titles.
On 28 April 2026, Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda, Associate Professor, Politics, SIAS delivered an online talk for the Bahujan Students Front at the University of Hyderabad titled ‘Educate, Agitate, Organize: Dalit and Black Visions of Liberation’. The lecture offered a comparative reflection on the Black civil rights movement and Dalit struggles for equality, highlighting how both …
Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP was a panellist for a panel discussion titled ‘Between Risk and Care: Building Safety in Turbulent Times’, organised by Izaar Circle, New Delhi on 18 April 2026. The discussion revolved around risk, precarity and care in the aftermath of the recently passed Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment …
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Dr Joya John, Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS has penned an article in The Wire titled For the Love of Infrastructure: Music, Protest and the Politics of Care in Iran and India. In Iran, citizens gather around key infrastructure—often using music—to protect it amid threats, reframing it as a site of collective care and survival. The …
Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP delivered a talk on ‘Science as Storytelling’, in a live podcast hosted by The Scicomm Synapse on 19 April 2026. Focused on students and aspiring communicators, the conversation dived into building a career in science journalism, crafting impactful narratives, and why storytelling might just be the most underrated …
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