A Round-up of the Kreaverse
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April is here, temperatures are soaring and so is imagination, ideation and execution in the Kreaverse. The week was buzzing with vigour as various teams hosted events across the country and planned ones for the upcoming days. This week at Krea was a true embodiment of the spirit of interwovenness, where thoughts and action were anchored at the intersection of varied disciplines. From Ethics, Mathematics, Psychology, Environment Studies, Theatre and Art, to Literature, there is something in the works for everyone. The upcoming week promises to be packed with events that seek critical conversations and deliberation.
This week also marked significant research led impact by our centres and faculty and students continued to up the ante, across discourse, propositions and action.
Starting this edition, we are also launching bite-sized information-centric pieces that will aid the Krea community along the lines of self-care and holistic wellbeing. We plan to add many more across the spectrum of fitness, travel and social outreach, along the coming weeks.
As the summer beats down on us, please do not forget to stay hydrated and keep sending us feedback, bouquets and brickbats alike, that will help us mould our weekly editions a little bit better, each week.
We eagerly look forward to hearing from you.
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This week we shine the spotlight on Prakriti Club, the Environment and Outdoors Club at SIAS. Prakriti aims to create a network of like-minded individuals interested in environment and sustainability. The club intends to create awareness and spark conversations regarding environment by providing various avenues and approaches for the same. The club functions under three broad verticals - sustainability initiatives, academia and outdoor activities - with the goal of making an impact by participating in hands-on environmental activities, initiating interdisciplinary academic discussions and exploring outdoor activities.
On Krea’s social media platforms, in the coming week we will share Prakriti's work, anchored on social outreach, knowledge sharing and actionable advise.
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This week, Daniel George, Cohort of 2025, SIAS, shares how he makes the best use of Krea University's campus, his unique talent for playing the piano by ear, and his creative endeavours of capturing the essence of Krea's campus through his YouTube channel — providing an inside look for incoming students.
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Krea, Coffee and Conversations
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As part of Krea University's Outreach initiatives, three coffee chat sessions have been organised for the upcoming week. Dr Aashique Ahmed Iqbal, Assistant Professor of History, SIAS and Outreach team member, Leonard Rozario will be hosting a session in Bhubaneswar. In Ahmedabad and Surat, Outreach team member Arshad Shaikh will be hosting the sessions, answering queries and allaying concerns about everything that entails Krea. Please do spread the word, and interested candidates could register here.
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The Krea Quotient: All About Mathematics
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In another of the series, Dr Rishi Vyas, Sundram Fasteners Assistant Professor of Mathematics, SIAS will navigate the audience through what makes Mathematics — as a university subject and academic discipline — different from the manner it is presented in schools. This will be a virtual session.
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As Krea-CWP (Centre for Writing and Pedagogy) puts it, most of us in academia are feeling like Arthur Dent, lying in front of a bulldozer to protect our house from being mowed down because a new bypass is being built in the form of ChatGPT. Should we keep lying down? Is the world, as we know it, about to end? Or should we grab a towel in preparation for our interstellar ride? The Centre is hosting a session with speakers Dr TVH Prathamesh, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SIAS, Sayantan Datta, Faculty Teaching Associate, Krea-CWP, Neha Mishra, Faculty Teaching Associate, Krea-CWP and Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Krea-CWP and Associate Professor of Literature, SIAS.
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Saturday, 15 & 22 April 2023
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Students and guardians are invited to come over and explore our state-of-the art campus at Sri City, Andhra Pradesh. An opportunity to step into Krea University’s green and vibrant campus and explore everything we have to offer, through an interactive tour, that also connects them with our diverse community of faculty, students, and department heads. Discover Krea is scheduled for two weekends and can be chosen as per convenience, both 15 April and 22 April. If you would know of a guardian or student who is interested, please do request them to register.
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You are Invited to Mark Rothko’s Life
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The upcoming week, SIAS Clubs Rangasthala and Kala will collaborate for a showcase to be hosted in Seminar Hall 3 on 16 and 17 April, at 09.00 PM.
The event will take the audience through the life and work of Mark Rothko, the abstract expressionist painter. Come experience his journey in his exploration of artistic philosophy, his struggles with commercialism, and most importantly, his relationship with his assistant. The show will unravel the mysterious events of Rothko’s life and traverse Art, Philosophy, Theology, Literature, Drama, and Music. Passes will be made available for the event. Click to get passes
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Higher Education and the Union Budget
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Professor Saumen Chattopadhyay, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies (ZHCES), School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), will deliver a virtual talk titled Higher Education and the Union Budget. The lecture series, as part of the Public Finance course, will use budget documents to illustrate how public finance works in reality. The series will bring together policymakers, think tanks, and informed citizens to make relevant budget information available to everyone. The lecture series will be anchored by Dr Debdulal Thakur and managed by SIAS students.
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Thinking Like a Psychologist
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As part of the Speaker Series: Thinking Like a Psychologist, the Psychology Department is hosting a talk by Dr Ayurdhi Dhar, Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of West Georgia on Psychology’s own Fundamental Attribution Error and highlight how the discipline is blind to its own cognitive biases.
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Decision-makers, Education, and Climate Action
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Globally, decision-makers understand the importance of education for climate action. But when it comes to moving from knowledge to action, decision-makers have been slow to shift. Dr Christina Kwauk, a social scientist with an interdisciplinary focus on education for climate action will be speaking on Working with Decision-makers to Accelerate Education for Climate Action and Climate Justice.
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Veteran journalist and founder-editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI), Palagummi Sainath will be delivering a talk on, Who were our Freedom Fighters? And What was India’s Freedom Struggle all About? Sainath’s new book The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom records the life stories of 15 very ordinary Indians – representative of millions of others like themselves – and how they took on the British Raj. Farmers, labourers, cooks, couriers, homemakers, artisans, students and others played astonishingly courageous roles without ever gaining personally. The talk will be hosted in Kothari Hall.
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Krea-CWP in celebration of Global/National Poetry Month, organised an Introduction to Haiku and Haiga poetry writing workshop, led by Dr Anannya Dasgupta, a poet and photographer, and Associate Professor of Literature and Director of Krea-CWP.
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QueerTWENTY, an annual list released by the company Egomonk, that strives to recognise and celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community has named Sayantan Datta, Faculty Teaching Associate, Krea-CWP as one of the twenty trailblazing queer-trans individuals in the country.
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Measuring Dignity at Workplace: A Study on Indian Workgroups, a research paper by Dr Ameesh Samalopanan, Assistant Professor, DoMS, NALSAR University of Law and Krea’s first PhD Graduate, along with Prof Vijayalakshmi, IFMR GSB, Krea University has been accepted for oral presentation at EURAM 2023 Onsite Conference to be held 14-16 June 2023 at the Trinity Business School in Dublin, Ireland. The research paper has been selected among 2,000 submissions.
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A new study by LEAD at Krea University points to the need for more tailored financial solutions for Nano Entrepreneurs and suggests that with an estimated credit demand of $150 billion, the opportunity is tremendous – both for these businesses and for India’s economy.kkjesfndfkjsndkvnsdkfvnskjfvnsdkjfvnlsjnvsdnvsdnvk
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Inclusion Economics India Centre is collaborating with Yale Economic Growth Center and Google on training grassroots volunteers in Bihar to disseminate warnings for extreme weather events from high-tech early warning systems. Rohini Pande and Maulik Jagnani describe the collaboration in the piece below.
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Krea University invites applications for multiple faculty and staff positions across the IFMR Graduate School of Business (GSB) and School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS). Apply Here
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J-PAL is inviting researchers to a self-nomination process for invited researchers to identify research opportunities and promote greater equity. Apply Here
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Inclusion Economics India is hiring for two important positions, a Policy Associate and a Capacity Building Manager. Apply Here
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5 Tips to Get Through this Summer, Gastronomically
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• Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate
• Lighter foods for the win
• Vegetables aplenty
• Seasonal fruits are the heroes
• Snack albeit smartly
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Inputs drom holistic nutritionist, author, and entrepreneur Shiny Surendran
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Along with a delay in implementing provisions of the Rights for Persons with Disabilities Act 2016, there exists an eerie absence of focused discussions on disability-rights legislation in law schools’ curricula. Sayantan Datta, Faculty Teaching Associate, Krea-CWP reports for The Wire.
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This week, Dr Lakshman Varanasi, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at SIAS recommends, Capital by Rana Dasgupta
The winner of the 2017 Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage and short-listed for the Orwell Prize and for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, Capital is an extraordinary portrait of the fastest-growing city in the world—and the rise of a new global elite. Commonwealth Writers’ Prize winner Rana Dasgupta presents an intimate portrait of the people living, suffering, and striving for more in this tumultuous city of extremes, as well as an uncanny glimpse of our shared global future.
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Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play
Edited by Lynn Enterline
Tracing the development of narrative verse in London's literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Campion and Edmund Spenser.
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Image Courtesy: Wahiq Iqbal, Cohort of 2025, SIAS
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Students from the Kreaverse capture a slice of Krea on camera
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Thank you, Arul Shankar, SIAS cohort of 2025, for capturing the most loved and admired faces on the Krea campus
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