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Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS has recently published an article in Scroll.in on Tom Stoppard, a giant of modern British theatre, who passed away recently. Read more He also published an article connecting the centenary of Ritwick Ghatak with the unveling of the infamous SIR exercise in Bengal for The Federal. Read more

Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Centre for Writing & Pedagogy and Associate Professor, Literature and Arts has been invited by Shiv Nadar University – School of Law in Chennai to teach in their practitioner semester. Dr Dasgupta’s sessions will be on on Peer Collaboration and Review in the process of writing and revision. Know more

Professor Chiranjib Sur, Visiting Professor, Computer Science, SIAS recently presented a paper ‘Accelerating Temporal Triangle Counting and Betweenness Centrality on GPUs’ (in collaboration with IIT Chennai, IIT Ropar and Shell) in 29th Annual IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC2025). Another research paper titled Energy-Aware Runtime Resource Harmonizer for Co-running Applications by Professor Sur ( in collaboration with IIT Delhi and …

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Dr Preeti Gulati, Assistant professor, History, SIAS, was invited to the Manorama Hortus Art and Literature Festival in Kochi, as a panelist to discuss her new book Women Writing History. Author Sindhu Rajasekaran led the conversation on history, sexuality, pedagogy and being a woman historian.

Dr Shanti Pappu, Adjunct Professor, Archeology and History, SIAS was invited to Paris to participate in and present at the International Conference ‘Technological behaviours of Hominins over Eurasia?’, held on 19–20 November 2025 and organised by M H Moncel. Dr Pappu jointly presented a paper titled ‘Persistent Places, Differing Trajectories: Exploring Lower Palaeolithic Technological Diversity …

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Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP and Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, SIAS presented at the Language Diversity and Mathematics Education conference at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh, on 26 November 2025. In their presentation, they demonstrated how they use reading strategies to enable students of mathematics and quantitative sciences to comprehend mathematical content …

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Two Haiga by Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Associate Professor, Literature and Arts, SIAS and Director, Krea-CWP has been published in the Contemporary Haibun Online in the 21.3 edition of the Haiga Gallery. Read more

Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS has co-authored an op-ed piece based on the recently published paper in The Times of India. In the piece the authors argue that regionally tailored adaptation is the essential need of the hour, and therefore the importance of the “Global Goal on Adaptation” at COP 30. Read …

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Prajwal Parajuly, Assistant Professor of Practice, Creative Writing SIAS has penned a new piece for The Hindu titled Why Michelin thinks India has only 36 hotels worth a Key. Parajuly discusses how Michelin’s first India Key list names just 36 hotels, including The Leela Palace Chennai, The Leela Delhi and The Imperial, while skipping heavyweights …

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Jaideep Hardikar, Visiting Professor of Practice, Environmental Studies, School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS) has been awarded the maiden Ramoji Excellence Award in the Journalism category. After a rigorous selection process, Jaideep was chosen for his exceptional body of work documenting rural India and the agrarian crisis.