Krea, this Week

3 - 10 Apr 2026

A Roundup of the Kreaverse

This is the 164th edition of Krea, this Week. We didn't notice when we turned a year old, we didn't notice even when we were out with 100 editions, we didn't notice any of these statistics. Yet the strength of consistent news sharing laced with a silent and subtle sense of camaraderie that's innate to our community, has shone through each edition, week on week. Each stakeholder at Krea has contributed in more than one way, may it be by sending in timely news, sharing updates, reading and commenting, or by showing us the lamp through constructive criticism time and again. May it be the way we rejoice each of our achievements or raise a toast to every initiative, without labelling it big or small, Krea, this Week has truly embodied the spirit of a shared sentiment. And today is no different, like all weeks, as we click open this edition, hope this weekly dispatch brings us together, yet again in its own unique way.

Award Longlist and Book Chapter

An investigative report co-authored by Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy (Krea-CWP) has been longlisted for the prestigious One World Media Awards 2026 (Print category). The report titled A trans person’s struggle for dignity doesn’t stop even when they die was published in queerbeat.

In other news, a book chapter titled, Who is the vyomanaut? Understanding India’s human face in the new space race, penned by Sayantan, has been published in an ebook by The Hindu, titled India and the Second Space Race.
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Article

Professor S Sivakumar, Dean – Research and Professor, Physics, School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS) has co-authored an article titled ‘Cloning’ hurdle skirted to make perfect copy of quantum state, published in The Hindu.

Guest Lectures

SIAS faculty members, Dr Sayantan Mandal, Assistant Professor, Psychology and Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology were invited to deliver two special guest lectures representing Krea University at EFL University, Hyderabad on 2 April 2026. Dr Rakesh delivered a talk titled ‘Complexity as Constraint: From Visual Binding to the Grammar of Working Memory’ and Dr Sayantan, ‘Biolinguistics & The Limits of Phonology: Towards a Minimalist Program’.

In other news, Dr Rakesh Sengupta's latest paper titled Bio-Inspired Variance Control: Decoupling Signaling Mode from Power Constraints in Neuromorphic Systems was published and presented at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Technology and Management for Social Innovation (IATMSI) in Gwalior.

Workshop

Krea-CWP faculty members, Meghna Bohidar, Faculty Teaching Associate; Neha Mishra, Assistant Professor of Practice; and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice were invited by the Department of English, University of Kashmir, to conduct a week-long reading-writing workshop for their MA students and PhD scholars. The workshop titled ‘Developing Communication Skills in the Age of AI’ was held from 30 March to 3 April 2026.

Lecture

Dr Sushant Raut, Assistant Professor, Physics, SIAS delivered the Tamil Nadu Science Forum’s 101st Popular Science Lecture. The session titled ‘Three quarks walk into a baryon: The new particle Xi_cc+ at LHC’ was held at Anna Centenary Library, Chennai on 4 April 2026.

Article

An article co-authored by IFMR GSB faculty members, Professor Srinivasan Kalyanasundaram, Professor of Practice, Finance; Dr Balasubramanian, Senior Professor and Advisor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance and Professor Jayaram Ramakrishnan, Professor of Practice, Finance titled Agentic AI: The New Engine of Cost-Optimized Banking, was published in The Management Accountant, in the April 2026 issue.