Dr Sabah Siddiqui, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS was part of a book discussion held in Pune on her book, A People’s History of the Farmers’ Movement, 2020-2021. The event was organised by Shankar Brahme Samajvidnyan Granthalay and the Pune Collective. Professor Prashant Bhansode (Ghokhale Institute of Politics and Economics) was the discussant, in addition to …
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Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh choreographs and directs Ranga Mandira Sadir Melam’s newest
Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh, Associate Professor of Practice, Literature and Global Arts, SIAS directed and choreographed a showcase by Ranga Mandira Sadir Melam presented on 2 February 2026 as part of the 25th Bharat Rang Mahotsav, International Theatre Festival celebrated by The National School of Drama.
Dr Venugopal Maddipati taught a course at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
Dr Venugopal Maddipati, Associate Professor, History, SIAS taught a course for masters level design students centered around the medical humanities and architectural design in Ahmedabad at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, titled Ontologies of Stillness: Gandhi, Passivity, Pensivity and Illness.
Dr Madhavilatha Maganti conducts an online session for faculty from CMR university, Bangalore
Dr Madhavilatha Maganti, Associate Professor, Psychology, SIAS conducted an online session on ‘Critical Thinking and Research Methods’ for faculty from CMR university, Bangalore as part of their FDP on ‘Teaching and Research in Liberal Studies’ :Interdisciplinary Pedagogies on 23 December 2025.
SIAS UG Student Aarthi Venkatesh Awarded ICIS Founding Generation Fellowship
Aarthi Venkatesh, a third-year Psychology student at SIAS, has been awarded the highly selective Founding Generation Fellowship by the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS). As part of the fellowship, she will spend the summer at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, conducting research at the Centre for Infant Cognition under the supervision of …
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Dr Rakesh Sengupta, delivers an online talk at IIIT Hyderabad in their Cognitive Science Seminar Series
Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS delivered an online talk at IIIT Hyderabad in their Cognitive Science Seminar series on 28 January 2026. The talk was titled ‘Graph Surgery: Tuning the Connectome to Predict Distinct Neural Dynamics of Enumeration’.
Krea Students Excel at FLAME University’s Kurukshetra Fest 2026
Krea students recorded a strong showing at FLAME University’s Kurukshetra Fest 2026. TBD Crew, Krea University’s official UG Western Competing Dance Team, secured first position in the Step-Off category. Led by Ananyaa Premanand, the team included Aarushi Chowdhury, Aashna Bhartiya, Ananya Sarath, Avani Bipinkumar, Diya Saravanan, Drishti Satpal, Ishita Vohra, Pranaya Khatri, Sanika Ostwal, and …
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SIAS Alum and Student present at 5th International Conference on Advanced Network Technologies and Intelligent Computing
At the 5th International Conference on Advanced Network Technologies and Intelligent Computing held at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (ABV-IIITM), Gwalior, India, Lekhana Priya Gundapaneni, SIAS alum and now a Teaching Fellow and Purvikalyani Prasannah, SIAS, Cohort of 2027 presented papers that will be published in Springer CCIS (Scopus indexed …
Dr Chirag Dhara co-authors an article in Down To Earth’s ‘State of the Environment 2026’ report
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS has co-authored an article in Down To Earth’s ‘State of the Environment 2026’ report titled India’s Climate Apocalypse? The article discusses how regional hotspots of climate change are emerging across the country and this demands regionally tailored adaptation strategies contingent not only on the nature of climate …
Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda, authors an essay in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 61, No 2 (2026)
Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda, Associate Professor, Politics, SIAS has authored an essay titled Public Good or Private Gain? The Battle for Andhra’s Medical Colleges in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 61, No 2 (2026). Abstract The controversy over the transfer of seventeen newly sanctioned government medical colleges in Andhra Pradesh to private operators under a Public–Private Partnership (PPP) model …