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An essay by Dr Dipanjali Deka published in an edited volume

An essay by Dr Dipanjali Deka titled Singing Nirgun Fearlessly: A Journey from Baahar (Outer) to Bheetar (Inner), has been published in the Routledge-edited volume – The Indian Knowledge System: Creative Dialogue on Intellectual Traditions in the 21st Century, edited by Manindra Thakur and Shailja Tandon.

The volume seeks to foster democratic dialogue among intellectual traditions, recover neglected conceptual resources, and explore plural pathways for knowledge production in the contemporary world. Dr Deka’s chapter explores the baahar–bheetar dialectic in Kabir to challenge the binaries of political/spiritual and sagun/nirgun, revealing their interdependence through embodied musical practice and philosophical inquiry.

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Nangsel Sherpa leads a session at Mirik College

Nangsel Sherpa, Faculty Teaching Associate, Krea-CWP was invited by the Literary Club and the Department of English at Mirik College, West Bengal, to lead an interactive session on academic and creative writing. The session opened into a wide-ranging conversation about the challenges students face in writing, and the ways in which AI is shaping how young writers understand and approach their own practice. The session was held on 3 June 2026.

A paper by Dr Avishek Majumder accepted for PKC 2026

A paper titled Efficient and Post-quantum Conjunctive Dynamic SSE with Strong Privacy Guarantees by Dr Avishek Majumder Assistant Professor, Data Science, SIAS has been accepted in a reputed international conference on cryptography namely PKC 2026.

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List of accepted papers at PKC 2026

Dr Lakshmi Narayanan’s seminar at UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS, delivered a seminar on ‘Tsunamis of the Mesosphere – Observations from OH Airglow and Sodium Layer in the Upper Mesosphere’ during his visit to UiT The Arctic University of Norway as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen research collaborations on 21 May 2026. Dr Narayanan also presented observations from a low-cost OH airglow camera developed at Krea University. The seminar was also attended online by colleagues from other Scandinavian countries.

Dr Anannya Dasgupta authors an opinion piece in The Wire

Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Krea-CWP and Associate Professor, Literature, SIAS, penned an opinion piece titled Print, Paper and Pen: Smarter Classrooms in the Age of AI published in The Wire.

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Dr Sushant Raut was part of the ‘Lecture On The Rocks’ series

Dr Sushant Raut, Assistant Professor, Physics, SIAS, gave a talk on multi-messenger astronomy titled ‘Stairway(s) to Heaven’ at Black Orchid Restobar in Chennai. This was the 11th lecture of Season 1 of the ‘Lecture On The Rocks’ series.

Professor Anil Srinivasan pens an article in Hindustan Times

Professor Anil Srinivasan, Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature and the Arts, SIAS has authored an article in Hindustan Times titled Rethinking learning in the age of AI. The article poses a query around the gap between what we say about the future and what we actually build for it. It sheds light on how world is moving faster than our institutions and asking questions our curricula were not designed to answer. The piece anchors the suggestion that the question is not how we teach students to use AI, but to question what remains irreducibly human when AI can do everything we have been measuring.

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Dr Madhavilatha Maganti’s paper published in Human Arenas by Springer Nature

A paper titled Sociocentric and Cosmocentric Coping: Cultural Logics of Parenting During Crisis in Low-Resource Indian Families by Dr Madhavilatha Maganti, Associate Professor, Psychology, SIAS, has been published in Human Arenas, a Springer Nature Journal.

The study explores how parents from economically marginalised communities in urban Delhi coped with the COVID-19 crisis through relational, moral, and faith-based practices rather than individual stress management alone. It highlights culturally grounded forms of coping centred on family well-being, caregiving, endurance, and meaning-making in contexts of structural vulnerability.

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Dr Rakesh Sengupta co-develops open-source dyscalculia screening tool

Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS, has co-developed DyscalcBattery, an open-source cognitive screening tool designed for dyscalculia screening and numerosity perception research.

Addressing a significant gap in learning disability research, DyscalcBattery offers a free, browser-based alternative to existing commercial screening tools that are often calibrated primarily for Western populations. Developed as an open-source platform, the tool is specifically designed for multilingual and low-resource field deployments, enabling researchers and educators to conduct cognitive screening using low-end laptops and tablets.

The tool is currently being used in a large-scale field study involving school children in Warangal, Telangana.

The preprint for the battery, DyscalcBattery: An open browser-based psychophysical battery for dyscalculia screening and numerosity perception research, co-authored by Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS and Usha Padmini, SR University, Warangal is now available online. The paper provides additional details on the development and implementation of the open-source screening tool.

Read the preprint here

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Dr Chirag Dhara publishes an opinion piece in The Indian Express

Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS) has penned an opinion piece titled Santa Marta’s big question: Who pays for green energy? in The Indian Express. The article reflects on a major climate conclave held in Santa Marta, Colombia, examining whether the goals of the conference can be met in the current geopolitical and economic context.

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