A Round-up of the Kreaverse
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Summer heralds not just a season of leisure, but also a time ripe with possibilities in the realm of academia. The season beckons researchers, students, and educators alike to delve into new realms of knowledge, to forge connections, and to cultivate innovation.
With empty classrooms and a silent campus, the academic world transforms into a landscape of exploration and discovery. Faculty members embark on journeys of intellectual pursuit, unbound by the constraints of routine.
Meanwhile, our students are capitalising on the myriad opportunities presented by internships. While those who have secured placements are earnestly honing their skills for the corporate world.
But most important of all, with the highly anticipated Convocation 2024 celebration on the horizon, we are pulling out all the stops to ensure its resounding success.
Each day brings new prospects for growth because learning never stops here. This week has been no exception, with a handful of noteworthy developments unfolding in the Kreaverse.
For the latest updates, follow us on our social media platforms. And as always, if you have stories or news to share with the Krea community, we encourage you to reach out to us at all.commsteam@krea.edu.in
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Granville Austin and Srijani Mukhopadhyay from SIAS pen articles for ThePrint
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Granville Austin, a second year BIOS student at SIAS (School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences), Krea University has contributed insightful pieces to ThePrint's features team, carving out a niche as a writer for the Science and Tech column. With a keen eye for trends relevant to the Indian demographic, Granville consistently reports on developments that resonate deeply with readers. These articles were written as part of his internship.
Read here: Article 1 | Article 2 | Article 3
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Srijani Mukhopadhyay, a second-year student majoring in History and Politics at SIAS, Krea University has contributed insightful pieces to ThePrint. She's interning with the Opinion and Features team. Her fifth long-form article will be published this weekend. It's an edited version of a paper she wrote for a course taught by Dr Gowhar Fazili, Assistant Professor of Social Studies, SIAS, Krea University. The article explores the unique experience of the Bengal Partition through the partition poetry of Bengal.
Read here: Article 1 | Article 2 | Article 3 | Article 4
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Krea University is delighted to announce a new partnership with the University of Exeter. This partnership allows Krea students to progress to Exeter after completion of a degree programme at Krea and be awarded a Postgraduate Degree.
This partnership embodies our shared vision of fostering collaboration and providing enriching experiences for our students. By accessing the University of Exeter's renowned faculty, state-of-the-art facilities, and dynamic campus environment, our students will be empowered for personal and professional growth.
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The University of Exeter is one of the few universities to be both a member of the Russell Group and have a Gold award from the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), evidence of its established international reputation for excellence in both teaching and research.
Moreover, upon graduation, they will join the University of Exeter's alumni network & expand their global connections. The University has over 25,000 students from 130 countries and over 125,000 alumni in 183 countries.
This partnership further enriches the array of opportunities available to our student community, reinforcing Krea's commitment to providing diverse and promising higher educational pathways.
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The paper Design Thinking View on an affordable public bike-sharing project from India by Sathyanarayanan Ramachandran, Associate Professor of Marketing, IFMR GSB (Graduate School of Business), Krea University, has been accepted for presentation at the Academic Design Management Conference (ADMC) 2024.
ADMC is a prestigious international academic design management conference held annually in various locations around the world. This year, it will take place in Delft, Netherlands. Sathyanarayanan Ramachandran will present his paper on 6-7 August, 2024.
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Dr Rama Devi, Visiting Assistant Professor, SIAS, Krea University virtually presented 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.
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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. 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. Focusing on the political aspirations of youths in a Dalit-dominant neighbourhood 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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Shweta Rani, Faculty Teaching Associate, Krea - CWP (Centre for Writing and Pedagogy) has contributed an essay titled Living with Mosquitoes: Exploring the Dengue Outbreak in Delhi to the edited volume Event and Everyday: Empiricisms and Epistemologies. This volume, edited by Proffesor Yasmeen Arif, has been published by Orient BlackSwan.
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In 2015, Delhi witnessed what can now be called the last dengue outbreak in the city. In this article, Shweta Rani draws upon her fieldwork conducted during and since the outbreak to comment on the rubric of Event-Everyday. It investigates how people – city dwellers, medical practitioners, officials, municipal workers, dengue patients, and their caretakers – deal with the persisting presence of mosquitoes in their everyday lives. While state health strategies seek absolute human-mosquito isolation, field narratives portray a more complex picture. For instance, municipal workers assigned the task of ‘killing’ mosquitoes encounter the resilience of an insect as a lifeform. Moreover, people, even while dealing with the dengue outbreak, don’t necessarily perceive its vector as their deadly foe. Shweta Rani argues that these modalities of living with a supposedly undesirable non-human other are too intricate to be captured by the episodic imagination of an event, as the latter is understood in the common parlance. Instead, paying heed to the intertwining of ‘event’ with its apparent antonym, the ‘everyday’, is essential. Establishing everyday’s dynamism and its susceptibility to innovation is analogous to challenging the temporal fixity of an event. Hence, the burden of this work is to demonstrate the potential of everyday to enrich our understanding of an event. The essay ends with potential questions this scholarship might enable us to ask.
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Dr Suprio Bhar, IIT Kanpur, will be delivering a talk titled Brownian Motion and Stochastic Differential Equations, as part of Krea Mathematics Talk, on 6 June, 2024 from 10:30 am to 12:30 am IST at 3 D classroom, Krea University Campus.
About the talk:
Brownian motion is a well-known stochastic process connected to Mathematical Physics, Statistical Mechanics, Partial Differential Equations and Mathematical Finance.
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In this talk, we motivate the definition of a Brownian motion as an equation of motion of a particle in a homogeneous medium, and then extend the definition towards a more general equation of motion, the Stochastic Differential Equations. After a brief overview of existence and uniqueness results, we shall discuss certain dependence of the solution with respect to the initial condition. The last part of the talk shall be based on a joint work with Arvind Kumar Nath.
Join here
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The Mid-Day newspaper carried an interview with Dr R S Sathya Saminadan, Associate Professor of Practice & Area Chair – Marketing, IFMR GSB, Krea University on his journey as an author and upcoming projects.
Read here
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'Tis the season for summer placements!'
As our Kreators from SIAS, Krea University step into the realm of professional exploration, this series traces their pathway at Krea and how these experiences have shaped them for the ever-evolving landscape of the workforce.
View here
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In the Krea Virtual Open House happening today from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm IST, Meenu Arora, Associate Director, Outreach, Krea University will walk students and parents through Interwoven Learning and the undergraduate programmes offered at Krea University, as well as the admission process. A Q&A session will follow.
Register to join
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Going off-route with a special event, the Admissions team at SIAS, Krea University recently organised a virtual movie screening for the incoming students. The participants had the option to watch content from four themes presented by their Krea buddies and indulge in a post-screening discussion. Additionally, the second round of coffee chats, held in Kolkata, featured Dr Kalyan S Chakrabarti, Associate Dean (Students), SIAS, Krea University addressing both students and parents, fostering meaningful connections and providing valuable insights into university life.
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The Krea University Podcast is back, with a brand new segment in collaboration with Centre For Entrepreneurship, Krea University, helmed by the students of Krea. Today's episode is hosted by Mitansh Aggarwal from SIAS, Krea University, in conversation with Vamshi Vasudevan, Founder, Anyo App and also IFMR GSB, Krea University alum.
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Vamshi Vasudevan took the road less travelled, a decision that took determination, confidence and hard work. Vamshi showcased gumption and grit, as she moved from a successful career in Finance to deep dive into the world of entrepreneurship and holistic wellness through Anyo. 17 months in, Anyo is now backed by angel investors, spreading its wings and dreaming big.
Watch Mitansh and Vamshi deep dive into the world of dreams, ideas, vision and so much beyond.
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