Dr Sarabjeet D Natesan, Associate Professor, Economics, SIAS presented her autoethnographic work at the Indian Network of Memory Studies organised by IIT-Madras, in the opening session on 27 October 2025. Dr Natesan’s presentation was titled ’Burden of Inherited Stories-Violence of Abandoned Dreams.’
Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh, Associate Professor of Practice, Literature and Global Arts, SIAS and The Ranga Mandira Sadir Melam took their premier work ‘When Stories Take From’ to GD Birla Sabhagar, Kolkata. Dr Ganesh also presented a Lec-dem for the students of Gender studies, Performance studies and Literature at Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan.
A new scientific paper co-authored by Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies has been published in Environmental Research Letters (ERL). This was in collaboration with researchers from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune and the University of Reading, UK.
Titled Future intensification of Northern Hemisphere monsoons due to declining remote aerosol pollution, the study reveals that reducing air pollution in the Northern Hemisphere’s industrialised continents could have a significant and far-reaching impact on future monsoon rainfall. The research finds that aerosols from North American and Eurasian continents play a substantial role in shaping monsoon precipitation, and that a drastic decrease in these pollutants will likely intensify summer monsoons in West Africa, North America, and South Asia. The study addresses a critical challenge in climate science. While it is known that air pollution from human activities, particularly aerosols, has greatly influenced past monsoon patterns, predicting future changes has been difficult. This research provides crucial insights, suggesting that efforts to improve air quality could have unintended climatic consequences thousands of miles away.
Sooraj, K P, Chirag Dhara, D C Ayantika, Kalik Vishisth, K.M Sumit, Andy Turner, R. Krishnan (2025). “Future Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Monsoons Due to Declining Remote Aerosol Pollution.”Environmental Research Letters 20, no. 11.
A haibun by Dr Anannya Dasgupta Director, Krea-CWP and Associate Professor of Literature, SIAS has been published in the October 2025 issue of Cattails Journal. The haibun is titled When it is all good and appears on page 120.
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS, has penned a piece titled The Commodious Melancholy of László Krasznahorkai’s Fiction in the The Wire. He sheds light on how Krasznahorkai challenges conventional fiction by demanding silence, attention and existential engagement from the reader.
Dr Suryodaya Sharma, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS is presenting his paper titled “Caste Prejudice and Persisting Inequality in India: Role of Social Identity and Belief Systems” at the 53rd Annual conference on South Asia at University of Wisconsin, Madison. The paper is part of a panel ‘Critical Perspectives on Structural Inequality: Explorations in Psychology of Caste’ in the conference.
Vikas Kumar Choudhary, Faculty Teaching Associate, Krea-CWP presented a paper titled “Theorising Mnemonic Injustice: Caste, Politics and Memory” at the Conference Theorizing Justice, jointly organised by Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai in association with Dr B R Ambedkar Centre for Economics and Socio-Legal Research, Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University.
Dr Preeti Sampat, Associate Professor, Sociology & Social Anthropology, SIAS delivered a talk at a panel at Gokhale Education Society’s N.B.Thakur Law College, Nashik, on ‘Landed Property and Exclusion: Gender, Caste, Environment and Liberalism’.
Dr Joya John, Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS participated in a virtual symposium titled, Minor Literature, Major Stakes: Hindi’s Political Worlds on October 10–11, 2025 organized by New York University & Vanderbilt University.
Dr John’s paper was titled, ‘Hindi in Local, Global, and Planetary Frames: Environment, Climate Change, and the Affordances of Hindi’. The paper analysed how state discourse stymies the language of environment communication and what challenges new global or planetary discourses of climate change pose for Hindi. The presentation was a set of observations based on the work of environmentalist Anupam Mishra, climate translations and contemporary Hindi fiction and poetry.
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS delivered an invited talk on 14 October 2025 at the National-Level Pre-COP 30 Workshop organised by the Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The title of the talk was ’Reconceptualization of climate responsibility and implications for climate finance’.
The workshop was organised by Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in collaboration with the Karnataka Forest Department (KFD), Institute of Wood Science and Technology (IWST), and United Nations Global Compact Network (UNGCN). The purpose of the workshop is to inform India’s negotiating positions on climate change at the Conference of Parties 30 (COP 30) in Brazil in November.