SIAS students Sparsh Makharia, Vatsalya Betala, and Aarav Akali (Cohort 2022-26) secured 2nd place at the prestigious EMPOWER Hackathon, an inter-college competition hosted by IIM Ahmedabad’s Social Innovation Club (IDEOS), Ashoka University’s Social Impact Club (Anitya), and the CS Society of Ashoka University. The EMPOWER Hackathon: Tech for Social Good brought together students from across …
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Dr Proma Raychaudhury pens an op-ed in Anandabazar Patrika
Dr Proma Raychaudhury, Assistant Professor, Politics, SIAS recently published an op-ed in Bengali at Anandabazar Patrika, an analysis of the Trump-Zelensky interaction through the performative approach to populist politics. Read here. Dr Raychaudhary also delivered an invited lecture at Adamas University’s Guest Lecture Series on Exploring Women’s Participation and Representation in Indian Politics on 10 …
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Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda publishes an essay in the Frontline
Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda, Associate Professor, Politics, SIAS has published an essay, Telangana’s SC subclassification risks reinforcing old inequities in Frontline (10 March 2025). About the EssayFollowing the Supreme Court’s verdict on the sub-classification of SC reservations, the Telangana government took the initiative to implement this by categorising 59 Dalit castes into three groups based on …
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Professor Anil Srinivasan receives the Anjali Khandwalla Memorial Award
Professor Anil Srinivasan, Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature and the Arts, SIAS, received the iconic Anjali Khandwalla Memorial Award. The award, instituted and presented by Dr Pradeep Khandwalla, former Director of IIM Ahmedabad, is given annually to an outstanding teacher or educator. Nominations are submitted by scholars, and the jury consists exclusively of teachers and …
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Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury writes for The Wire and Sangbad Pratidin
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS wrote about the sophistication of a psychoanalytical approach to stardom, and the unique daring of its leading actor in Satyajit Ray’s Nayak (The Hero, 1966), starring the Bengali screen icon Uttam Kumar, which was re-released after a digital restoration across the country on February 21 2025. Read more The same film occasioned a …
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Dipanjali Deka participates in the Malwa Mahila Kabir Yatra
Dipanjali Deka, Visiting Assistant Professor, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy (Krea-CWP) was a guest musician at the Malwa Mahila Kabir Yatra, held from 28 February to 2 March 2025, in Madhya Pradesh. Malwa Mahila Kabir Yatra is a travelling folk music festival that celebrates women’s voices and the music and poetry of the mystic poets of …
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Dr Chirag Dhara delivers a talk at IISER Pune
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS delivered a talk at IISER, Pune based on their recently published paper, ‘A scalability-centric perspective on global human development within environmental limits’ on 28 February 2025. The talk was delivered as part of the ECS Seminar and was titled, ‘What levels of development can humanity “sustainably” aspire to?’
Dr Chirag Dhara delivers a talk at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
Abstract of the talk Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS delivered a talk at the Prof R Ananthakrishnan Colloquium at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune on 25 February 2025. The talk was titled “Is India a good or bad performer on climate change?” Abstract of the talk Climate performance indices are widely used to evaluate …
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Dr Suchika Chopra presents research paper at IIT Bombay
Dr Suchika Chopra, Assistant Professor, Economics, SIAS recently presented the research paper, titled ‘Effects of Health Shocks on Time Spent in Home Production’, at IIT Bombay from 17-19 February organised by YSI INET Economics. This paper examines the non-monetary costs associated with health shocks and evaluates whether incorporating home production helps sustain effective consumption during a health …
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Dr Vivek Tewary delivers a lecture at discussion meeting on ‘Quantitative Theory of Homogenization’ at IIT Bombay
Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, SIAS recently delivered a lecture at a discussion meeting on ‘Quantitative Theory of Homogenization’ at IIT Bombay held from 17 to 22 February 2025. Dr Tewary’s lecture was titled, Schauder Estimates for Divergence-Form Systems’. Schauder theory in regularity theory of PDEs is a perturbative method to transfer the regularity of coefficients to the solutions. …