Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Associate Professor, Literature, SIAS, gave a talk at the Centre for Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) on 14 October 2026, titled ‘Iconicity between Indolence and Piety: Thoughts on the Afterimage of a Star’. Dr Chowdhury has recently signed two book contracts. One of them is a critically curated anthology of illustrated political humour from the 1940s to the present era. The other is a short monograph on Satyajit Ray’s Days and Nights in the Forest, which is being developed for a global film series published from the UK.
