Sara Abraham, Visiting Faculty, SIAS has authored an article titled Tamil Nadu’s migrant worker survey: Missing the crucial questions, and answers for Frontline – The Hindu. The article discussed a survey undertaken by the Tamil Nadu government to understand the work and living conditions of 811 inter-State migrant workers in Chennai and its surroundings. The …
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From 16 to 21 June 16 2025, Dr Sarabjeet Dhody Natesan, Associate Professor of Economics, SIAS participated in the Levy Economics Institute’s Summer Seminar at Bard College, New York. This immersive programme focused on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), financial instability, and heterodox macroeconomic policy. The seminar, organised by the Levy Economics Institute and led by …
SIAS alum Tanishka Nandakumar and student Hriday Shankar are conducting a research under the guidance of Dr Swayam Sampurna Panigrahi, Assistant Professor, Operations, IFMR GSB and have presented the working paper on Recycling of Lithium Ion Batteries: The Key to Sustainable EV Growth at ” SOM 2024: XXVII Annual International Conference of Society of Operations …
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Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP has authored a piece for The Hindu titled How safe AI is in healthcare depends on the humans of healthcare. Read more They have also penned a piece for The Hindu titled Yeast shows physics can give rise to multicellular life sans mutations. Read more
Dr I Iyyappan, Post-Doctoral Fellow, SIAS, presented his research on “Nonlinear Refrigerator with Finite-Sized Cold Bath” at the 10th Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting, organised by the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru, from 23 to 25 April, 2025.
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS, has co-authored an article titled Who is Really Developed with Dr Soumyajit Bhar, Assistant Professor, School for Liberal Studies for Down to Earth. The authors challenge the conventional notions of development. Read more
Professor Akhila Ramnarayan, Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature and the Arts, SIAS has penned a review essay on Robert Macfarlane’s new book, titled ‘Is a River Alive?’: Radical resistance and solidarity between humans and the natural world in Scroll.in. Robert Macfarlane is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people, and place. He is the …
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Abhayraj Naik, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, Environmental Studies SIAS offered an international exploratory workshop on ‘Introduction to Climate Law in India’ at the University of Tuebingen on 30 May 2025. He also presented a talk titled ‘What Comes Next? Exploring Systemic Change Possibilities in India following the Declaration of a Constitutional Climate Right’ at …
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Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS has penned a review of Professor Bishnu Mohapatra’s latest volume of poetry, Rain Incarnations. Published in The Scroll, the article is titled The umbrellas are on a protest march’: Bishnu Mohapatra’s poems on rain for a desolate May. The poems have been translated from Odia by Aparna …
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Dr Joya John, Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS presented a paper on 30 May 2025, titled ‘Yeh Prithvi Rahegi: Planetarity in the Non-Anglophone Imaginary’. The paper was part of a 3-day panel titled Comparing Hindi Literature: Then and Now in the World at the Annual Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference. Dr John’s paper analysed how contemporary …