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 …

Dr Suchika Chopra presents research paper at IIT Bombay 

Dr Suchika Chopra, Assistant Professor, Economics, SIAS recently presented the research paper, titled ‘Effects of Health Shocks on Time Spent in Home Production’, at IIT Bombay from 17-19 February organised by YSI INET Economics. This paper examines the non-monetary costs associated with health shocks and evaluates whether incorporating home production helps sustain effective consumption during a health …

Dr Vivek Tewary delivers a lecture at discussion meeting on ‘Quantitative Theory of Homogenization’ at IIT Bombay 

Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, SIAS recently delivered a lecture at a discussion meeting on ‘Quantitative Theory of Homogenization’ at IIT Bombay held from 17 to 22 February 2025. Dr Tewary’s lecture was titled, Schauder Estimates for Divergence-Form Systems’. Schauder theory in regularity theory of PDEs is a perturbative method to transfer the regularity of coefficients to the solutions. …

Professor Bishnu Mohapatra’s Barshavatara published by Speaking Tiger Books

We are thrilled to share Professor Bishnu Mohapatra’s most recent volume of poetry, Barshavatara, has been published in English translation as Rain Incarnations by Speaking Tiger Books. The Odia volume was published in 2022 by Paschima Publications, Bhubaneswar. Professor Mohapatra is Professor, Politics, SIAS and Director, Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Krea University. Know …

Dr Lakshmi Narayanan awarded PM Early Career Research Grant by Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)

Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS has received funding for his proposal under the PM Early Career Research Grant scheme, awarded by Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) — a newly established initiative by the Government of India. The project, titled Early Morning Ionosphere-Thermosphere System (EMITS): Knowledge Gaps and Importance in the Low and …

Kashish Ramesh is nominated for Entrepreneurial Excellence at Founders Conference, Singapore 2026

Kashish Ramesh, Cohort of 2023 – 2027, SIAS has been nominated for the Entrepreneurial Excellence Award at the Founders Conference in Marina Bay, Singapore (2026), becoming the youngest nominee in the event’s history.   The nomination highlights her entrepreneurial initiatives, Quope and Cadet & Blu. Kashish founded Quope in 2021, a non-profit inspired by organisations like …

Dr Tanmoy Chakrabarty presented at ICMAGMA2025 organised by the Magnetics Society of India

Dr Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Assistant Professor, Physics, SIAS, gave an oral presentation about his research work at the International Conference on Magnetic Materials and Applications (ICMAGMA2025) organised by the Magnetics Society of India (MSI) in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. The conference was held from February 12-14, 2025, at the  IISc campus in Bengaluru, India. The title of Dr  Chakrabarty’s talk was , ‘31P NMR studies of the 1/3 …

Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda delivers lectures at Faculty Development Programme at GITAM University

Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda, Associate Professor, Politics, SIAS was invited as a resource person for the Faculty Development Programme at GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The programme, held from 12 to 14 February 2025, featured Dr Gundimeda delivering two insightful lectures. His sessions focused on effective publication strategies and research proposal writing for securing funding. The …

SIAS student Purnaa Muthu pens a blog for CDJ Plus, the blog of the Community Development Journal (Oxford University Press)

A blog titled Transgender People in Indian Science Institutions: Identity, Community & Belonging by Purnaa Muthu, a third-year SIAS student majoring in Psychology and a former peer tutor at the Centre for Writing and Pedagogy (Krea-CWP), has been published on CDJ Plus, the blog of the Community Development Journal (Oxford University Press). In this piece, Purnaa explores the work of …

Dr Sharin Shajahan Naomi speaks at Guru Nanak College

Dr Sharin Shajahan Naomi, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Krea University was invited by the Humanities department ( Political Science Programme) of Guru Nanak College to present  on India’s foreign policy towards war-torn countries on 11 February 2025. Her presentation focused on India’s foreign  policy to countries like Ukraine, Palestine, Myanmar and historical humanitarian intervention in Bangladesh and Sri Lankan …