A Round-up of the Kreaverse
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The classrooms are brimming with energy, conversations are getting louder and a new set of minds has joined the Krea community. While the academic rigour remains steady, every year brings a fresh wave of students with different aspirations and ways of seeing the world. No two journeys are alike. Each individual adds something new to the learning environment; shaping and reshaping what the Kreaverse can be. It’s this constant exchange that drives us collectively towards something bigger and better.
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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Orientation 2025 - Krea Nite, A Glimpse
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We are pleased to announce that M Nagarani, formerly an Associate Professor, OB & HR, IFMR Graduate School of Business (GSB), will be taking on a new role as Director of Career Services. In this capacity, she will oversee placement activities for both IFMR GSB and School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS).
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Professor Madhuri Saripalle, Professor, Economics and Chairperson - MBA Programme, IFMR GSB has been recognised as a reviewer for prestigious Wiley and Elsevier journals. She has also completed the Fundamentals of Case Teaching online course, offered by Harvard Business School faculty Professor VG Narayanan and Professor Bill Schinao from Bentley University earning a certificate in case-method instruction.
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Kaveri Bharath, Visiting Faculty, Global Arts, SIAS, will be exhibiting her work in ceramics and other media at Espace 24, the gallery at the Alliance Française of Madras. The exhibition opens on 8 August 2025 at 7.00 pm and will be on view until 22 August 2025, from 10.30 am to 6.30 pm daily, including Sundays (except on 15 and 16 August 2025).
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Prajwal Parajuly, Assistant Professor of Practice, Creative Writing, SIAS, pens another piece for The Hindu titled Author Prajwal Parajuly goes in search of God and gets distracted by a rooster.
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During his academic visit to Canada, Professor Govindarajan T R, Visiting Professor, Physics, SIAS delivered a talk titled ‘Fuzzy dark matter and primordial black hole’ at McGill University, Montreal on 15 July 2025 and another titled ‘Overluminous Supernovae and Hubble tension’ at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo on 21 July 2025.
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This episode of Magic 20 Tamil features Dr R S Sathya Saminadan, Associate Professor of Practice, Marketing, IFMR GSB, discussing the future of AI and its impact on marketing.
Watch here.
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Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy, Krea-CWP has authored an editorial titled Recording sex and gender data in clinical settings published by the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. Read more.
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On 24 July 2025, Centre for Child Development (CDC) Meghalaya, under the Meghalaya ECD Mission Society, hosted its inaugural ECD Workshop in Shillong, a dynamic platform bridging research, practice, and policy for impactful, child-centered solutions. Partnering with Krea University, the workshop brought together leading policymakers, developmental paediatricians, researchers, frontline practitioners, and institutional partners from across India, including Maharashtra, Odisha, and Karnataka. The aim was to design convergence strategies that deliver measurable outcomes for Meghalaya’s youngest citizens.
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Dr Proma Raychaudhury, Assistant Professor, Politics, SIAS, presented her research paper titled 'Sub-nationalism and (Gendered) Social Welfare Regimes: A Study of West Bengal under the All-India Trinamool Congress Government' and represented Krea University at the Scales of Governance Conference 2025 held at Colombo, Sri Lanka. The event was jointly organised by Bandaranaike Academy for Leadership and Public Policy (BALPP) and Sciences Po.
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A few curated articles — featuring in-house contributors - on the topic AI & Beyond. Write to all.commsteam@krea.edu.in if you’d like to write on topics that could be informative to the community.
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The Inevitably De-Generative AI in Classrooms by Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director,
Krea-CWP. Read here.
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Beyond Model Building: Artificial Intelligence and Interwoven Learning at Krea by Dr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar — Associate Professor, Biological Sciences & Discipline Coordinator, Data Science, SIAS. Read here.
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How I Use AI as a Student: A Personal Perspective by Dheer Panjwani, Cohort of 2023 – 27, Data Science major, SIAS. Read here.
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It’s The Soft Skills Game, Not The AI Strides by Dr Pallavi Pandey, Associate Professor, OB & HR, IFMR GSB. Read here.
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The History discipline organised a talk titled ‘The Life of a Storm: Why Fisher Knowledge Matters’. The speakers for the session were S Palayam, Fisher elder, Urur Kuppam, Chennai and Dr Bhavani Raman, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto. The talk was held on 23 July 2025.
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Krea Biological Sciences Talk
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The Biological Sciences discipline organised a talk titled ‘Role of protein–protein interactions on organisation and dynamics of a model chromatin’ by Pinaki Swain, Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Biology, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. The talk was held on 23 July 2025.
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The Economics discipline is organising a talk titled ‘Viksit Bharat 2047: Pathways to Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Transformation’ by Professor NR Bhanumurthy, Director, Madras School of Economics. On 6 August 2025, from 11.30 am to 12.30 pm at SH2.
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The Literature discipline invites all interested to attend a talk by Hemali Sodhi, Founder, A Suitable Agency, on Monday, 28 July 2025, at 4.30 pm at JSW - 3F, Krea University campus. The talk is mandatory for LITT326: Advanced Creative Writing and LITT206 : Creative Writing but is open to all. Know more | Attend here virtually
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This campaign series breaks down the Foundation Year experience for undergraduate students at SIAS. In this episode, Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS, explains the unique features of the skill course — Design Thinking.
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Thrilled to share that Prabhjeet Singh, Alum, SIAS Cohort of 2019 - 22 had the opportunity to present his work that emerged out of his Krea capstone project at Journées des Jeunes Bioacousticien·nes (JJBA) Vernon.
This week, Ritika Dubey, Alum, SIAS Cohort of 2024, responds to a few of our prompts to encapsulate the fantastic Krea journey she had and how it has led to where she is today, at the brink of kickstarting her training to be an Army Officer.
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