13 - 19 Dec 2025

Yashvi Sharma, Cohort of 2022-26, School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS), and a star capstone student, represented India at the IKMF World Championship held in Hungary and delivered a remarkable performance by winning a gold medal in kettlebell sport. Competing in the one-arm long cycle marathon event, she completed an impressive 592 repetitions with a 12-kg kettlebell, securing the top position at the world stage.

Nangsel Sherpa, Faculty Teaching Associate, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy (Krea-CWP), spoke at the ‘What Gets Told?: Media, Memory & Representation’ session of the Shared Futures Conclave, held from 4–5 December 2025 in Gangtok, Sikkim. The Shared Futures Conclave aims to build a sustained platform for dialogue on socio-environmental and developmental questions central to the Sikkim–Darjeeling Himalaya. The conclave is organised through a collaboration between Reading Himalaya, a policy think tank; the Centre for Himalayan Studies, Shiv Nadar University, and Sikkim University.

Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS, spoke at the ANRF PMECRG Lightning Talk Series, an event highlighting Prime Minister’s Early Career Research Grant awardees. He participated in the third session along with two other awardees and spoke about his research field and ongoing project. 

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Pooja Kumar, Senior Manager, Communications, co-curated the VOICE Fellowship, a four-day national training programme on the climate–health nexus hosted at IISER Pune. Alongside Dr Shalini Sharma, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, IISER Pune, and senior journalists Nidhi Jamwal and Hridayesh Joshi, the programme brought together 40 journalists and communicators from more than 13 states. The sessions covered themes including air pollution and health, heat and health, and climate change and mental health, with a focus on strengthening science-based public-interest reportage.

Dr Shriddha Shah, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, SIAS, was invited as a panellist for a session titled ‘In Memory of JPS Uberoi’, as part of the STS India Network Conference, ‘Co-shaping of Science, Technology, and Society in India’, from 15-17 December 2025, at OP Jindal Global University, Sonepat, NCR, Delhi.

Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP, has authored a chapter titled Who gets to profit from DNA data?, published in The Hindu eBook titled The Genetic Frontier: How gene editing and synthetic biology are redefining what it means to be human. 

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Krea History Talk

Dr Indivar Kamtekar, Visiting Professor, Ashoka University, delivered a talk titled ‘A Fourth Framework: Reinterpreting the 1940s in India’. Held on 15 December 2025, the talk explored how the 1940s in India can be interpreted through a fourth framework to understand some crucial aspects of Indian History.

Capitalism Exhibition

The Sociology & Social Anthropology discipline hosted an exhibition by students of ‘Capitalism: Essential Readings’ on 16 December 2025.

Krea Physics Talk

Dr Iyyasamy Iyyappan, Post-Doctoral Fellow, SIAS, delivered a talk titled ‘Asymmetrical paths in thermodynamic relaxation dynamics’ on 17 December 2025.

ECON Club x PSYCH SOC Talk

The Economics Club, in association with the Psychology Society, co-organised a talk titled ‘Nudging For Good: Can Policy Design Change Behaviour’, presided by Dr Soumya Pal, Assistant Professor, Economics, IFMR GSB, and Lekhana Priya Gundapaneni, Teaching Fellow, Psychology, SIAS. The discussion unpacked the relation between policy design and behaviour followed by a Q & A session.

2026 Admissions Open

Krea University is now accepting applications for the 4-Year Undergraduate Programmes at SIAS, and the 5-Year Integrated MBA and 2-Year MBA Programmes at IFMR GSB and the Full-time and Part-time PhD Programmes at SIAS and IFMR GSB.

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