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A Roundup of the Kreaverse
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We are just a step away from ushering in 2026 and bidding farewell to 2025, a year packed with individual and collective milestones, achievements, accolades and accomplishments. It has also been a year of reflection, lessons and stories in perseverance and determination. As a community, each year, we embark on new learning adventures, pursue our goals relentlessly and take on new challenges with humility backed by knowledge. The only thing unchanged is our spirit and zeal, the unflinching baton that is passed forward, year after year. And we continue to look ahead, with the hope that the future holds more intellectual adventure, brand new possibilities and better opportunities.
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IFMR Graduate School of Business (GSB) is gearing up for InMarc 2025, its inaugural international marketing conference, from 5 to 7 December 2025 at the Krea University campus. This event will bring together scholars, researchers, and industry professionals to explore the evolving landscape of marketing. The conference, themed Imagining the Future of Marketing: Innovation & Sustainability, seeks to foster insightful discussions, share cutting-edge research, and bridge the gap between marketing theory and practice.
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Jaideep Hardikar, Visiting Professor of Practice, Environmental Studies, School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS) has been awarded the maiden Ramoji Excellence Award in the Journalism category.
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Dr Brijesh Kumar Mishra, Associate Professor, Chemistry, SIAS, co-authored a paper titled Consequences of Heterogeneity of Organic Molecules in Water: Enhanced Photodimerization of Olefins published recently in the scientific journal Langmuir by the American Chemical Society.
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A research paper by Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS titled Synchronization in Hybrid Feedforward-Recurrent Neural Networks with Stochastic Temporal Modulation, has been published in the proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Intelligent Communication Networks and Computational Techniques (ICICNCT).
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Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS has co-authored a research paper titled A post-AR6 update on observed and projected climate change in India published in PLOS Climate.
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22 November 2025
12:30 - 2:00 PM| Zoom
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Krea Professional Development Programme
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22 November 2025
1.00 – 3.00 pm
Arsha Vidya Mandir School
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25 November 2025
2.30 - 3.30 pm| NAB-2A
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Krea Sociology and Social Anthropology Talk
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25 November 2025
2.30 - 4.00 pm| NAB-1D
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26 November 2025
2:30 - 4:30 pm| SH1
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Sociology and Social Anthropology Film Screenings
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2 December 2025
2.30 pm| Media Lab
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'The Prediction' (Kanippu), one of the three short films, created as part of the Water Stories project produced by Krea University and directed by Rishi Chandna will be screening at JAFF Film Festival 2025.
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As part of the same event, a debate competition was held on 15 November 2025 to encourage more conversations on campus toward creating inclusive spaces. The first motion, ‘This House believes that universities should recognise disability as a key category of diversity and reserve a percentage of faculty positions for scholars with disabilities’, was won by the Opposition team (Abhinandan Naresh, Raj Tripathi) against the Proposition team (Srijani Mukhopadhyay, Arjun Singh). The second motion, 'This House believes that self diagnosis of psychosocial disabilities should be recognised as valid in academic and social settings’, was won by the Opposition team (Srijani Mukhopadhyay, Arjun Singh) against the Proposition team (Deepa Ramachandran, Aalia Chondamma). The third and final motion, ‘This House would abolish mandatory attendance and in person participation in universities, granting full autonomy over how they engage with learning’, was won by the Opposition team (Srijani Mukhopadhyay, Arjun Singh) against the Proposition team (Abhinandan Naresh, Raj Tripathi).
Input from Psychology Society, SIAS
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On 13 November 2025, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy (Krea-CWP), in collaboration with the Ministry of Learning, hosted a discussion workshop on creating clear and effective presentations led by Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP. The session focused on readability, visual structure, and purposeful slide design.
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Input by Pranvi Khare, SIAS UG Cohort, 2023-27
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The Literature Discipline recently hosted two talks featuring Rahul Soni, Editor-at-Large at HarperCollins India and founding editor of South Parade, in conversation with Manasvin Rajagopalan, Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS and Prajwal Parajuly, Assistant Professor of Practice, Creative Writing, SIAS on 18 and 19 November 2025. The sessions explored various facets of translation, and the craft of editing, the inner workings of the publishing industry, and the skills needed to build a career in the field.
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Input by Pranvi Khare, SIAS UG Cohort, 2023-27
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Krea Computer Science Talk
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The Computer Science Discipline hosted a talk led by Dr Mohammed Sajjad Hussain, Postdoctoral Fellow, Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences on ‘Algorithmic Management of Workers through Food Delivery Platforms in India’ on 20 November 2025.
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