A Round-up of the Kreaverse
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In the next couple of months, the entire Krea community will be back on campus, immersed in new beginnings, corridors echoing with bustling footsteps, classrooms packed with curiosity and enthusiasm, students shuffling on the fields playing their favourite sport, huddled in lounges over intense ideas and a natural heavy spike in the demand for the signature puffs and coffee from Narasimhulu’s Cafe.
But until then, the campus finds purpose in its silence and serenity, sans the usual hustle and bustle, taking a deep breath, gearing up for tomorrow. Krea is reflecting, recharging and preparing for all that lies ahead. While the usual activities are on a pause, Krea Admissions are in full swing. The Outreach and Admissions team are steadily ushering in students for the new intake, our next generation of leaders.
The week, like all others, affirms our constant efforts to shift away from the lens of business as usual with a firm belief that the future may be chaotic and challenging but is brimming with possibilities. Please scroll down to view some of the important happenings from the Kreaverse this week. For real-time updates, please follow us on our social media channels. As always, if you have stories or news to share with the Krea community, we invite you to connect with us at all.commsteam@krea.edu.in.
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Remembering Shri N Vaghul
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As we remember Shri N Vaghul and celebrate his remarkable legacy of innovation, leadership, and compassion, the Krea community deeply feels the loss of a guiding light who steered our vision forward.
His exceptional wisdom, unwavering integrity, and relentless dedication to societal advancement have left an enduring impact, resonating closely with the values cherished at Krea. As we honour his life and contributions, we draw comfort in knowing that his remarkable legacy will continue to inspire and guide present and future generations of Krea students and leaders.
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A special gathering to pay homage and celebrate the life of Shri N Vaghul is being co-hosted by institutions Shri Vaghul served and showed the way, as a board member. It will be held on 30 May, 2024 at The Leela Palace, Chennai. The Krea community is invited. To RSVP, please send confirmation on or before 26 May to rsvp@brandavatar.in.
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Of Papers and Publications
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Dr Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Economics & Area Chair – Economics, IFMR GSB (Graduate School of Business), Krea University has co-authored a research paper titled Does cap-and-trade scheme impact energy efficiency and firm value? Empirical evidence from India with Kalyani Pal, PhD student, IFMR GSB, Krea University and Dr Praveen Bhagawan, Associate Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance & Area Chair – Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance, IFMR GSB, Krea University. The paper has been published in the journal Energy Economics.
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Energy Economics is a highly regarded peer-reviewed journal and it is categorized as A* as per ABDC classification, Q1 as per Scopus classification with Impact Factor = 12.8 and SJR (2023) = 3.56.
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Caste Concerns in Transgender Communities in India
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In the paper titled Caste Concerns in Transgender Communities in India: Contesting Cohesiveness, Broadening Horizon(s) in Sage Journals, Professor Pushpesh Kumar, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP (Centre for Writing & Pedagogy) historicise the emergence of an anti-caste consciousness in India’s queer- and transgender-rights movements in India.
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Presentation at Yale Modern South Asia Workshop
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Khula Area: On the Urban and the Pathological by Shweta Rani, Faculty Teaching Associate, Krea-CWP has been selected for this year's Yale Modern South Asia Workshop (MSAW). MSAW is a prestigious international academic workshop that takes place every year in different locations in South Asia, and this year it will be in Kathmandu.
Shweta will be presenting the paper between 27-28 May, 2024.
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This paper explores the relationship between the urban and the pathological by trailing the Aedes mosquito, the dengue vector, to trace the intersection of civic, social, and ecological in the everyday life of Delhi. To control the possibility of a dengue epidemic, the gaze of public health authorities primarily focuses on marginal areas considered inherently ‘dirty’. The residents of such areas, however, have to deal with the absence of basic urban infrastructure while also being under the stringent administrative glare for pest control. Interestingly, both the inhabitants of these areas and their administrators express the ungovernable stubbornness of such regions using the colloquial expression ‘khula area’. Ethnographically following the many usages of khula by several actors, this work argues that the word khula is an empty signifier, which, through many of its meanings, enables us to see urban spaces through the prism of pathological and all things that fall within its shadow.
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At South Asia Forum Conference
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Dr Rama Devi, Visiting Assistant Professor, SIAS ( School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences), Krea University recently presented (online) a paper titled Politics in time precarity: Aspirations, Anxieties and Dalit youths in Delhi at the South Asia Forum Conference organised by the University of Melbourne.
Recently, voluminous scholarship on Indian youths has drawn attention towards their inclination in communal politics that seeks cultural homogenisation and exorcising of the ‘other’, crucially of Muslims.
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Increasing formalisation and casualisation in the labour- market intensified by the restructuring of the economy, are depicted as important reasons for the youths drifting into communal politics. Wider economic transformations and the drastic alteration in the occupational structure hinder the integration of youths into formal, stable, and secure employment. Disillusioned with the contemporary labour market, communal politics alternately offers a cultural purpose and identity to the youth, mainly to young men. It allows them to renegotiate and recuperate their fractured masculinities. Focussing on the political aspirations of youths in a Dalit-dominant neighborhood in Delhi, the paper argues that politics also acts as a means for the precariat youths to gain social status and economic mobility, which is denied in the job market.
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A Roundup : Global Arts at Krea
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Professor Anil Srinivasan, Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature & the Arts, SIAS, Krea University and Dr Sumitra Ranganathan, Associate Professor of Music, SIAS, Krea University were on a panel at The Arts in Higher Education - convened by the International Society for Music Education (ISME) at KM Music Conservatory, and represented Krea University for the Global Arts. They were also part of a panel convened by the Parthasarathy Swamy Sabha - Chennai's oldest music institution - on Music in Education alongside leading classical music exponents. The events were held at the beginning of the year.
Professor Anil Srinivasan was also an invited keynote speaker in the recently concluded Liberal Arts and Sciences Symposium in Ooty - talking about the interwoven approach at Krea. All liberal education universities of India were in attendance.
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Dr Sumitra Ranganathan presented a 2 hour lecture demonstration in the monthly lecture series at Tyaga Brahma Gana Sabha, Chennai, titled "Gods in Place: pada as worship in Bettiah gharana Dhrupad". The lecture curated archival materials from her extended fieldwork with the musicians of the Bettiah Dhrupad tradition, bringing together theoretical ideas on the entanglements of place, listening communities and aesthetics, with approaches to archiving and engaging with the archive. The lec dem was held in March 2024.
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A Talk on Combinatorial Growth of Reciprocal Geodesics in Hecke Groups by Debadattam Das, PhD student at IISER Mohali is slated for 31 May, at 2.30 pm.
A geodesic in a hyperbolic orbifold is said to be ‘reciprocal’ if it passes through at least one even ordered cone point. These geodesics correspond to conjugacy classes of reciprocal elements. First, we classify the reciprocal geodesics in the Hecke groups; then, we study the growth of the reciprocal geodesics in terms of word lengths on the hyperbolic orbifolds associated with Hecke groups. In particular, we have completed the results of Marmolejo for the even cases of Hecke groups.
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Furthermore, we generalise the relation between the low-lying words and geodesics with an excursion of the modular group to Hecke groups. This is joint work with Dr Krishnendu Gond. Debattam’s research interest lies in the broad area of Geometry and Topology, particularly in Fuchsian Groups, Mapping Class Groups, Teichmüller Space, and Hyperbolic 3-Space.
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Prologue to the Krea Story
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The SIAS Admissions team has begun their Round 3 retention tours starting with Pune, and Aamchi Mumbai. Last weekend, the Admission team members met parents, and students from different rounds who have been offered admission to the SIAS UG programme intake of 2024. Next up in the list is Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi and Gurgaon, invites for which are on their way out.
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Conclusion of the Certificate Programme
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The final session of the certificate programme on Profitability Analytics & Enterprise Performance Management for the Auto Ancillary industry for Sundaram Fasteners Limited (SFL) was held on 18 May, 2024 at Krea University Admin Office.
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The tailor-made programme for Senior Managers of SFL was spread over 5 weekends. It spanned diverse subjects like Cost Management, Data Analytics, Supply Chain Finance, Risk Management & Sustainability, and Kaizen for Finance professionals. The Programme dwelled on the integration of multiple managerial methods to improve an organisation’s strategic & operational performance. The participants were exposed to the latest developments in the field of Managerial Accounting, Supply Chain & Risk Management and on ways and means to integrate the information produced by the three and embed it with Predictive Analytics.
The sessions were handled by the senior faculty of IFMR GSB, Krea University, Professor Balasubramanian G, Senior Professor and Advisor, Finance, Accounting & Quantitative Finance; Professor Chandrasekaran N, Professor, Operations Management; Professor R Jayaram, Professor of Practice of Finance and Visiting Faculty, Professor Manivannan Rajan & Mr Mohanakrishnan.
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Research & Impact - From LEAD at Krea University
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Spotlight Feature | On LEAD’s Journey
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Business Connect Magazine featured LEAD at Krea University’s journey over the last 18 years in building an action-oriented 'knowledge for impact' centre harnessing the power of data, innovation, and co-creation. In the article, LEAD’s Executive Director Sharon Buteau offers an insightful and candid glimpse into what it takes to establish a new-age research entity in the Global South, nurture local talent and capacity, and drive meaningful change - at the policy and community level.
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What are the experiences of women workers in Chennai as they move around the city? As part of an ongoing effort to understand and document women worker's experiences of safety and mobility from a spatial lens, LEAD at Krea University, in collaboration with the Gender and Policy Lab, Greater Chennai Corporation is conducting a multi-dimensional study to examine the various dynamics shaping their everyday realities in public spaces.
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LEAD’s Director of Partnerships & Outreach, Preethi Rao and Senior Research Fellow Sujatha Srinivasan had an insightful meeting with Tmt. Sharanya Ari IAS, Deputy Commissioner (Education), Greater Chennai Corporation, to discuss progress and strategise the next steps.
Stay tuned for more, here
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What risk factors contribute to adolescent suicide in India? How can we bridge the gap in suicide data? LEAD’s latest systematic review, in collaboration with the Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health (BALM), delves into the risk factors contributing to adolescent suicide in India. We explore how a modified version of the IMV model provides a nuanced outlook and offer actionable recommendations for interventions.
This study is a step towards contextualising the multifactorial ways in which distress can lead to suicide among adolescents in India and pathways for the way forward. Explore the full study here. For more learnings, tune into this recording from the recent webinar.
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