Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Krea-CWP and Associate Professor, Literature, SIAS, penned an opinion piece titled Print, Paper and Pen: Smarter Classrooms in the Age of AI published in The Wire. Read more
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Dr Sushant Raut was part of the ‘Lecture On The Rocks’ series
Dr Sushant Raut, Assistant Professor, Physics, SIAS, gave a talk on multi-messenger astronomy titled ‘Stairway(s) to Heaven’ at Black Orchid Restobar in Chennai. This was the 11th lecture of Season 1 of the ‘Lecture On The Rocks’ series.
Professor Anil Srinivasan pens an article in Hindustan Times
Professor Anil Srinivasan, Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature and the Arts, SIAS has authored an article in Hindustan Times titled Rethinking learning in the age of AI. The article poses a query around the gap between what we say about the future and what we actually build for it. It sheds light on how world …
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Dr Madhavilatha Maganti’s paper published in Human Arenas by Springer Nature
A paper titled Sociocentric and Cosmocentric Coping: Cultural Logics of Parenting During Crisis in Low-Resource Indian Families by Dr Madhavilatha Maganti, Associate Professor, Psychology, SIAS, has been published in Human Arenas, a Springer Nature Journal. The study explores how parents from economically marginalised communities in urban Delhi coped with the COVID-19 crisis through relational, moral, …
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Dr Rakesh Sengupta co-develops open-source dyscalculia screening tool
Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS, has co-developed DyscalcBattery, an open-source cognitive screening tool designed for dyscalculia screening and numerosity perception research. Addressing a significant gap in learning disability research, DyscalcBattery offers a free, browser-based alternative to existing commercial screening tools that are often calibrated primarily for Western populations. Developed as an open-source platform, …
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Dr Chirag Dhara publishes an opinion piece in The Indian Express
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS) has penned an opinion piece titled Santa Marta’s big question: Who pays for green energy? in The Indian Express. The article reflects on a major climate conclave held in Santa Marta, Colombia, examining whether the goals of the conference can be …
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Professor Mukund Padmanabhan writes an Opinion piece in ThePrint
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 and Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh at EGU 2026
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 conducted a workshop for students of the Centre for Women’s Studies, Pondicherry University
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 has co-authored an essay in the Higher Studies Toolkit for Critical Ocean Literacy
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 …