Tejas Rao, UG Cohort of 2023-27, School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS) will be presenting his research work titled ‘Interpretable deep learning predicts polycythemia vera and identifies novel genomic associations’ at the 67th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition to be held from 6-9 December 2025 in Orlando, Florida.
Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS was nominated to attend ‘Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation Conclave (ESTIC) 2025’, a newly launched flagship event of Government of India. The event brought together some of the leading figures from academia, industry and policy.
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS wrote an article in The Wire titled A Cricket Victory with Grace and Without Macho Displays of Hyper-nationalismon the triumph of the Indian Women’s cricket team, warts and all.
Cleaner air abroad could mean stronger monsoons over India, finds IITM study, an article in The Times of India discusses how global efforts to reduce air pollution could unintentionally make India’s monsoon stronger in the coming decades. The article cites a study conducted by Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS in collaboration with researchers from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune and the University of Reading, UK.
The paper in reference is titled, Future intensification of Northern Hemisphere monsoons due to declining remote aerosol pollution.
Dr Venugopal Maddipati, Associate Professor, History, SIAS delivered a talk entitled ‘A History of Gandhian Architecture as the Architecture of Martyrdom’ organised by Karwaan: The Heritage Exploration Initiative on 25 October 2025.
Dr Preeti Sampat, Associate Professor, Sociology & Social Anthropology, SIAS delivered a talk entitled ‘The Infrastructure and Relevance of Social Sciences Education in Rural Education’ at an event organised by Anekdhara in Hyderabad called ‘A Seminar on Rural Education: Grassroots Insights to Sustainable Pathways.’
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS has co-authored a paper titled Interpreting Climate Performance Indices: Implications for Equitable and Effective Policy published in Climate Policy Journal. Among the co-authors are Ishita Bagri, an SIAS Alum. They propose a novel framework to classify indices based on methodological framework and embedded normative choices, contextualising their outcomes and enhancing transparency of what the index truly measures.
Chirag Dhara, Anshuman Gupta, Ishita Bagri, Sebastián Block, and Kamal Kumar Murari (2025). “Interpreting Climate Performance Indices: Implications for Equitable and Effective Policy.” Climate Policy, 1–14.
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.
