Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS recently delivered two talks. ’Reconceptualizing sustainable development’ at the International Conference on Sustainable Development in Rome on 10 September 2025 and ‘A new development classification for the 21st century’ at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy on 15 September 2025.
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Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda writes for Frontline
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. Read more
Dr Vivek Tewary presents at GANIT Symposium on Stochastic Processes and Related Topics 2025
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 …
Dr Proma Raychaudhury teaches at the Reactionary Politics Summer School 2025
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 Lakshmi Narayanan at IN-SPACe event
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 …
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury delivers a lecture on Uttam Kumar
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 speaks in a session on “Women and India-Pakistan Conflict”
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.
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury delivers talk at DAG
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS, delivered a talk in Kolkata on 22 August at the invitation of DAG (formerly Delhi Art Gallery). The talk, on the idea of singularity in image tropes, was occasioned by the DAG exhibition Light and Shadow: Satyajit Ray Through Nemai Ghosh’s Lens and was titled ‘An Eye …
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Sibling, co-founded by Mitansh Aggarwal, Adwitiya Roy Viney Jain, selected for Catalyst AIC (Supported by AIM, NITI Aayog)’s Startup School Innovation Challenge 2025
Sibling, co-founded by three kreators – Mitansh Aggarwal, Adwitiya Roy Viney Jain, was selected for Catalyst AIC (Supported by AIM, NITI Aayog)’s Startup School Innovation Challenge 2025. Sibling will be part of an intensive three-month incubation program designed for early-stage ventures with scalable ideas. Program: 3-month incubation program (7th edition) run by Catalyst AIC under …
Dr Preeti Sampat delivers a talk at a fellowship course by Institute of Palliative Medicine and Indian Institute of Architects (Kerala chapter)
Dr Preeti Sampat, Associate Professor, Sociology & Social Anthropology, SIAS was invited to deliver a session entitled ‘Compassionate Access to Land and it’s Affordances’ at a hybrid fellowship course “Compassionate Spaces”, developed by the Institute of Palliative Medicine, Calicut, Kerala and the Kerala chapter of the Indian Institute of Architects. The fellowship is an …