Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda, Associate Professor, Politics, SIAS has penned an article in The Hindu’s Frontline titled Andhra Pradesh’s opposition row tests the spirit of democracy.
The article discusses how ruling TDP’s refusal to grant LoP status to Jagan Reddy follows the rulebook but drains dissent of dignity and weakens India’s democratic balance.
Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, SIAS presented a research talk on Regularity theory for nonlocal p-Laplace equations at GANIT Symposium on Stochastic Processes and Related Topics 2025 held at IIT Gandhinagar from 13-15 September 2025.
About the talk: Brownian motion is related to the Laplace operator as jump Levy processes are related to the nonlocal Laplace operator. Similarly, the p-Laplace operator has a probabilistic interpretation in a tug-of-war game with noise and the nonlocal p-Laplace operator comes from a nonlocal version of this tug-of-war game. A recent turn is to study these operators using non-probabilistic methods. While the probabilistic interpretations are linked to non-divergence type operators, in this talk, we focus on one of their divergence type counterparts. In particular, we discuss the local boundedness and local Holder regularity of solutions of the parabolic divergence type nonlocal p-Laplace equation.
About the workshop: The aim of this meet is to bring together researchers in the country working on stochastic processes and related areas (such as partial differential equations, dynamical systems) for a series of stimulating lectures and discussions. It is hoped that this can be the first meet in an annual tradition and provide a forum for explorations of new ideas and forging of new collaborations.
Dr Proma Raychaudhury, Assistant Professor, Politics, SIAS facilitated and taught a session at the Reactionary Politics Summer School 2025, organised by the University of Bath, United Kingdom. The workshop was held on 11 and 12 September 2025.
Dr Sharin Shajahan (Naomi), Post-Doctoral Fellow, SIAS, has published an article titled Artificial Intelligence and Anti-Feminist Backlash in Oxford Intersections: AI in Society. The article offers a conceptual understanding of the relationship between AI and anti-feminist backlash, drawing on a feminist approach to technology.
A project by Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS has been approved under the prestigious ISRO RESPOND programme. The project proposal is titled ‘Large and small-scale ionospheric plasma irregularities using airglow imaging and GNSS TEC measurements’.This will be a two year project in collaboration with Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. The support is approximately Rs. 28,00,000/- and manpower at the level of Project Associate. In this project Dr Narayanan will develop a low cost instrument to study oxygen airglow at 630 nm wavelength emanating from 200 – 300 km above the surface of the earth. He will also develop software to efficiently analyse the voluminous datasets involving machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms.
Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS has been awarded the Krea Research Fellowship 2025-26 for a project entitled ‘Multi-wavelength Airglow Imaging with Low-cost cameras (MAIL)’ with a support of Rs 3,50,000/-. The previous year Dr Narayanan developed low-cost cameras to observe a broad band of near infrared emissions known as OH airglow. This is a sequel to that project. In the present project, the team will try to measure individual airglow spectral lines (contrary to the broad band emissions) from the edge of space.
Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS delivered a lecture on 1 September 2025 upon invitation in the event conducted by IN-SPACe in connection with LEAD of Krea University. The event was IN-SPACe Short-term Skill Development Course on “Entrepreneurship Development for the Space Sector”. IN-SPACe is the newly created authorising agency under privatisation drive of Space Sector for approving space sector activities in India including that of ISRO. Other speakers from Krea included Professor Lakshmi Kumar, Dr Sathya Saminadan, Dr Aishwarya Krishnaswamy and Professor Vijayalakshmi. Dr Narayanan was present at the inauguration function of the event and was invited to release the abstract book along with Shri Kiran Kumar, Former Chairman ISRO, Dr Vinod Kumar, Director of IN-SPACe and other dignitaries.
An article titled Flow in The Living Tradition of Kabir in Malwa by Dr Dipanjali Deka has been published in the August Issue of Hakara bilingual online journal, centred on the theme of Flow. In the essay she examines flow, memory, and the question of “living” in the oral song tradition of Kabir, through the reading of a musical exchange between renowned folk singer Prahlad Singh Tipanya and his Guru, Chenaji Maru.
हाकारा । hākārā (ISSN 2581-9976), a peer-reviewed journal, is included in the University Grants Commission (UGC) CARE-LIST.
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS delivered the online public lecture ‘Uttam Kumar’s Last Laugh, Or a Talk Full of Ifs and Buts’, on the occasion of the centenary of the Bengali screen icon, organised by Manikchak College, Gour Banga University, Bengal.
Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh Associate Professor of Practice, Literature and Global Arts, SIAS was part of a session titled “Women and India-Pakistan Conflict”, organised by Noor e Emaan. The session reflected on recent and past conflicts between India and Pakistan through a feminist lens centering women, gender and marginalised groups.
