Professor Anil Srinivasan, Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature and the Arts, School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS), was conferred the prestigious RCME Dronacharya Award for Teaching and Mentoring, in October 2025. More recently Professor Anil was the keynote speaker at ThinkEdu 2026 by The New Indian Express. He headlined the discussion titled  ‘AI in Arts: Why Humanity Will Survive’.

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Dr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, SIAS, delivered a talk titled 'Graph-based and Machine Learning Approaches to Understanding Brain Health and Function' as part of the Synapse neuroscience conference on 6-7 March 2026 at IISER Tirupati. Undergraduate students from Krea—Nidhi, Zoeya, and Kailash—also presented their ideas during the ideathon held alongside the conference.

Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Centre for Writing & Pedagogy (Krea-CWP) and Associate Professor, Literature, SIAS, and Dr Anakshi Pal, Visiting Assistant Professor, Krea-CWP, conducted a Faculty Development Workshop titled ‘The Body and Soul of Research Writing’ at the Madras Christian College, Chennai, on 11 March 2026.

Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS, authored an article titled For India, war in West Asia and extreme summer temperatures could trigger a double inflation shock published in The Indian Express.

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Professor S Sivakumar, Dean - Research, and Professor, Physics, SIAS, co-authored a journal article titled Generation of large Fock states from coherent states using Kerr interaction and displacement, published in Physical Review A.

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Abhayraj Naik, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, Environmental Studies, SIAS, co-authored a chapter titled South Asia: Rights of Nature in India and Bangladesh in the recently-released second edition of the book Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law - A Guide for Practitioners (Aspen Publishing).

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Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS, published a paper, titled Global response of low and mid-latitude ionosphere to the severe geomagnetic storm of April 2023, in the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy.

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Dr C P Anil Kumar, Associate Professor, Mathematics, SIAS, has been selected to train Indian students for the International Mathematical Competition for University Students 2026, to be held in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, from 27 July-3 August 2026. The students being trained were selected from among those who excelled in the Madhava Mathematics Competition.
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Dr Smriti Sharma, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology and Social Anthropology, SIAS, published an article titled Packing Pareshani or Healthcare? The Affective Dimensions of Digitalisation in India's Health Sector in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 

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Dr Ramadas N, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Physics, SIAS, published a research paper titled Minimal decomposition entropy and optimal representations of absolutely maximally entangled states in Physical Review A.

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16 March 2026
7:00 - 8:00 pm
NAB Seminar Hall

17 March 2026
2.30 - 4.20 pm
JSW-2F

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As part of the Krea Philosophy Talk titled ‘Can We Still Trust the News? Media Ethics, Truth, and Responsibility in Contemporary Journalism’, Professor Mukund Padmanabhan, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, SIAS and former Editor, The Hindu, was in conversation with Dr Shriddha Shah, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, SIAS, on 10 March 2026.

Do Well Do Good (DWDG), a leadership initiative at IFMR GSB, successfully conducted Module 2 of the DWDG Future Leaders Program on 11 March 2026, marking a key transition for participants from conceptual learning to structured execution. Six teams of six students each developed strategic presentations addressing pressing sustainability challenges. Drawing on research and data-driven insights, the teams translated complex issues into practical business strategies across four focus areas—Climate, Energy, Mobility, and Circular Economy. The presentations were evaluated by Professor Lakshmi Kumar, Dean, IFMR GSB, whose feedback offered valuable perspectives on the feasibility and potential impact of the proposed solutions.

Input by Khushi Sinha, MBA Cohort of 2025-27

H T Parekh Library, in collaboration with Informatics Publishing Ltd, hosted an online webinar on research discovery and analytics using
J-Gate on 12 March 2026.

On 12 March 2026, Krea-CWP hosted writing teachers from the Writing Programme at the Shiv Nadar University (SNU), Chennai School of Law for a day of engaging sessions on reading and writing pedagogy, fostering cross-institutional exchange.

Image credit: Pranvi Khare, SIAS Cohort of 2023-27