Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh speaks in a session on “Women and India-Pakistan Conflict”

Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh Associate Professor of Practice,​ Literature and Global Arts, SIAS was part of a session titled “Women and India-Pakistan Conflict”, organised by Noor e Emaan. The session reflected on recent and past conflicts between India and Pakistan through a feminist lens centering women, gender and marginalised groups.

Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury delivers talk at DAG

Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS, delivered a talk in Kolkata on 22 August at the invitation of DAG (formerly Delhi Art Gallery). The talk, on the idea of singularity in image tropes, was occasioned by the DAG exhibition Light and Shadow: Satyajit Ray Through Nemai Ghosh’s Lens and was titled ‘An Eye …

Sibling, co-founded by Mitansh Aggarwal, Adwitiya Roy Viney Jain, selected for Catalyst AIC (Supported by AIM, NITI Aayog)’s Startup School Innovation Challenge 2025

Sibling, co-founded by three kreators – Mitansh Aggarwal, Adwitiya Roy Viney Jain, was selected for Catalyst AIC (Supported by AIM, NITI Aayog)’s Startup School Innovation Challenge 2025. Sibling will be part of an intensive three-month incubation program designed for early-stage ventures with scalable ideas. Program: 3-month incubation program (7th edition) run by Catalyst AIC under …

​Dr Preeti Sampat delivers a talk at a fellowship course by Institute of Palliative Medicine and Indian Institute of Architects (Kerala chapter)

​Dr Preeti Sampat, Associate Professor, Sociology & Social Anthropology, SIAS was invited to deliver a session entitled ‘Compassionate Access to Land and it’s Affordances’ at a hybrid fellowship course “Compassionate Spaces”, developed by the ​Institute of Palliative Medicine, Calicut, Kerala ​ and the Kerala chapter of the Indian Institute of Architects. The fellowship is an …

Dr Preeti Sampat publishes in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography

AA research paper entitled The Rentier Economy of Growth Infrastructures: Value Appropriation without Adequate Accumulation in India by Dr Preeti Sampat, Associate Professor, Sociology & Social Anthropology, SIAS has been published in published in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. ​Paper abstract: This paper draws on long-term research around Dholera smart city in Gujarat; the experience with special economic …

Dr Tanmoy Chakrabarty publishes in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

A research article by Dr Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Assistant Professor of Physics, SIAS titled Magnetic and electronic structure studies on S= 1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic alternating spin chain system KCuGa(PO4)2 has been published in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. The work highlights the low-dimensional magnetic behaviour in a novel phosphorus based cuprate system KCuGa(PO4)2. In this …

Sayantan Datta authors an article published in The Hindu

Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP has authored an article titled A random number generator using quantum physics and a blockchain published by The Hindu. While a new study isn’t the first to describe how quantum phenomena can be used in the service of generating random numbers, the technique incorporates a cryptographic tool called …

Dr Arindam Chatterjee elected as Fellow of the Linnean Society of London

​Dr Arindam Chatterjee, Postdoctoral Fellow in Biological Sciences, SIAS has been elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (FLS) as of 2 July 2025.The Linnean Society was founded in 1788, and is the oldest learned society devoted to the science of natural history. More details about the society, here.

Prajwal Parajuly’s latest book to be published by Tate Publishing, HarperCollins and Nepalaya

Karma and Lola, the next book in line by ​Prajwal Parajuly, Assistant Professor of Practice, Creative Writing, SIAS will now be published in 2026 by Tate Publishing in the United Kingdom, HarperCollins in the Indian Subcontinent and Nepalaya in Nepal. Illustrated by Ubahang Nembang, Karma and Lola is about an eight-year-old who lives in a …