Dr Arindam Chatterjee, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Biological Sciences, SIAS is now also a Review Editor/ Community Reviewer in the section of Molecular Diagnostics and Therapeutics section, in the journal of Frontiers of Molecular Bioscience, Q1 impact factor of 4, indexed in major international digital archives and repositories, such as PubMed Central, DOAJ, Google Scholar, Chemical Abstracts Service, Scopus.
Dr Proma Raychaudhury, Assistant Professor of Politics, SIAS has published a chapter on Women’s Institutional Belonging and Self-making in Indian Party Politics in an edited volume titled Gendering Party Politics: Feminist Institutionalist Perspectives (Oxford University Press, UK; editors: Meryl Kenny and Elin Bjarnegård). The book was published in October, 2025. The volume brings together insights from different contexts on gendered political party cultures.
Nangsel Sherpa, Faculty Teaching Associate, Krea-CWP facilitated six workshops at the Indigenous Women’s Writing Residency held in Lalitpur, Nepal, from 16 to 18 October 2025. The Residency was organised by The Pomelo with the support of Goethe-Zentrum Kathmandu and in collaboration with GAN Resource and Learning Centre (GRLC). The residency brought together women from diverse indigenous communities and lived experiences across Nepal to reflect on what it means to be an indigenous woman, especially at a time when climate change, displacement, and development threaten ancestral lands and ecosystems.
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.
