Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh, Associate Professor of Practice, Literature and Global Arts, SIAS, served as a mentor for the Baari Dance Festival 2025, held from 12–14 December in Chennai—a weekend celebrating dance, dialogue, and meaningful collaborations. She also facilitated a workshop titled ‘Courting Cultures’ at the festival, where she explored the cosmopolitan past of early modern …
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SIAS UG student Yashvi Sharma represents India, wins Gold at IKMF World Championship
Yashvi Sharma, Cohort of 2022-26, SIAS and a star capstone student, represented India at the IKMF World Championship held in Hungary and delivered a remarkable performance by winning a gold medal in kettlebell sport. Competing in the one-arm long cycle marathon event, she completed an impressive 592 repetitions with a 12 kg kettlebell, securing the …
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury publishes in Scroll.in and The Federal
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS has recently published an article in Scroll.in on Tom Stoppard, a giant of modern British theatre, who passed away recently. Read more He also published an article connecting the centenary of Ritwick Ghatak with the unveling of the infamous SIR exercise in Bengal for The Federal. Read more
Dr Anannya Dasgupta invited by Shiv Nadar University – School of Law to teach in their practitioner semester
Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Centre for Writing & Pedagogy and Associate Professor, Literature and Arts has been invited by Shiv Nadar University – School of Law in Chennai to teach in their practitioner semester. Dr Dasgupta’s sessions will be on on Peer Collaboration and Review in the process of writing and revision. Know more
Publications, Presentations and Outreach by Professor Chiranjib Sur
Professor Chiranjib Sur, Visiting Professor, Computer Science, SIAS recently presented a paper ‘Accelerating Temporal Triangle Counting and Betweenness Centrality on GPUs’ (in collaboration with IIT Chennai, IIT Ropar and Shell) in 29th Annual IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC2025). Another research paper titled Energy-Aware Runtime Resource Harmonizer for Co-running Applications by Professor Sur ( in collaboration with IIT Delhi and …
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Dr Preeti Gulati at Manorama Hortus Art and Literature Festival
Dr Preeti Gulati, Assistant professor, History, SIAS, was invited to the Manorama Hortus Art and Literature Festival in Kochi, as a panelist to discuss her new book Women Writing History. Author Sindhu Rajasekaran led the conversation on history, sexuality, pedagogy and being a woman historian.
Kai Easton publishes in English in Africa
Professor Kai Easton, Professor of Literature & Visual Cultures, SIAS has published a visual essay titled Scenes from Dusklands: Archives & Afterlives in a special issue of the journal English in Africa, for the 50th anniversary of Nobel Prizewinning writer J M Coetzee’s first novel, following a transnational conference series in Cape Town and Adelaide …
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Dr Shanti Pappu presents at Technological behaviours of Hominins over Eurasia? in Paris
Dr Shanti Pappu, Adjunct Professor, Archeology and History, SIAS was invited to Paris to participate in and present at the International Conference ‘Technological behaviours of Hominins over Eurasia?’, held on 19–20 November 2025 and organised by M H Moncel. Dr Pappu jointly presented a paper titled ‘Persistent Places, Differing Trajectories: Exploring Lower Palaeolithic Technological Diversity …
Sayantan Datta and Dr Vivek Tewary present at Language Diversity and Mathematics Education conference at SRM University
Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP and Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, SIAS presented at the Language Diversity and Mathematics Education conference at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh, on 26 November 2025. In their presentation, they demonstrated how they use reading strategies to enable students of mathematics and quantitative sciences to comprehend mathematical content …
Haiga by Dr Anannya Dasgupta in Contemporary Haibun Online
Two Haiga by Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Associate Professor, Literature and Arts, SIAS and Director, Krea-CWP has been published in the Contemporary Haibun Online in the 21.3 edition of the Haiga Gallery. Read more