Professor Shanti Pappu, Adjunct Professor, Archeology and History, SIAS has recently co-authored two articles.Grinding stones from the neolithic “Ashmound” site of Budihal, India has been published in ScienceDirect. And proceeds of a conference in What Is the Acheulean? in Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews35 (2026).
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Dr Sumitra Ranganathan participates in a roundtable at the British Forum of Ethnomusicology Annual Conference
Dr Sumitra Ranganathan, Associate Professor, Musics, SIAS participated in a 2-hour roundtable at the British Forum of Ethnomusicology Annual Conference on 9 April 2026. Titled ‘Entangling Past and Present: Connecting India’s Hidden Musical Histories to Ethnomusicology Today’, the five member hybrid roundtable featured work on neglected or erased fragments of North India’s musical story ranging …
SIAS alum co-authors an article published in Mongabay
Trisha Putturaya, SIAS alum, has co-authored an article titled From Diversity to Monotony: Ecological Communities Are Homogenising with Professor Guha Dharmarajan, Professor, Biological Sciences, SIAS. The article has been published in Mongabay. Read more
Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda authors an essay in Frontline
Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda, Associate Professor, Politics, SIAS has authored an essay in Frontline titled Ambedkar wouldn’t alter a comma. Will you?” This essay examines how freedom of speech is tested not by outright prohibition, but by conditional invitations and institutional pressures. Using B.R. Ambedkar’s refusal to alter his ‘Annihilation of Caste’ speech for the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal in …
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Dr Srajana Kaikini’s recent works
Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, SIAS’ recent poems Sonajhuri, A Little Thing, At a Protest, Jamun Pop ( ಸೋನಾಜ್ಹುರಿ, ಒಂದು ಸಣ್ಣ ಸಂಗತಿ, ಪ್ರತಿಭಟನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ, ನೇರಳೆ ಪಾಪ್ ) translated from English to Kannada by poet Prathibha Nandakumar, have been published by Kannada Prabha in their Yugadi Visheshanka (Yugadi Special Issue 2026).These are part of her forthcoming …
Professor TR Govindarajan’s article in The Federal
Professor TR Govindarajan, Visiting Professor, Physics, SIAS has penned an article on the fast breeder reactor in The Federal titled India’s PFBR reaches criticality: Milestone after years of delays and questions. From Bhabha’s three-stage vision to delays, global experience, and questions over timing and approval, the article is a deep dive India’s Prototype Fast Breeder …
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Dr Rakesh Sengupta’s paper published and presented at the 2026 IEEE International Conference – IATMSI
Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS’ latest paper titled Bio-Inspired Variance Control: Decoupling Signaling Mode from Power Constraints in Neuromorphic Systems has been published and presented at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Technology and Management for Social Innovation (IATMSI) in Gwalior. The paper tackles the problem statement on how as …
Sayantan Datta pens a book chapter published in The Hindu ebook India and the Second Space Race
A book chapter titled, Who is the vyomanaut? Understanding India’s human face in the new space race, penned by Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krew-CWP has been published in an ebook by The Hindu, titled India and the Second Space Race. In this chapter, Sayantan reports on the upcoming launch of Gaganyaan, India’s first …
Professor S Sivakumar co-authors an article for The Hindu
Professor S Sivakumar, Dean – Research and Professor, Physics, SIAS has co-authored an article titled ‘Cloning’ hurdle skirted to make perfect copy of quantum state, published in The Hindu. Article BlurbThe no-cloning theorem is a quantum physics rule that prohibits a user from perfectly duplicating unknown quantum states; researchers have now reported a way around …
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Dr Sushant Raut delivers the 101st Public Science Lecture of the Tamil Nadu Science Forum
Dr Sushant Raut, Assistant Professor of Physics, SIAS delivered the Tamil Nadu Science Forum’s 101st Popular Science Lecture. The session titled ‘Three quarks walk into a baryon: The new particle Xi_cc+ at LHC’ was held on 4 April 2026.The talk was on the Xi_cc+ particle that was recently discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in …