A Round-up of the Kreaverse
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It seems like yesterday when we huddled up over our desks over many sessions of ideation, to bring forth what has become now a weekly celebration of the collective spirit of the Krea community. Each week Krea, this Week brings the Krea community together over a single click of the mouse bound together by the accomplishments, challenges and the sheer joy of being a part of the Krea family.
March marked 12 months of Krea, this Week. A project driven by the collective and by collaboration. Edition after edition, the weekly newsletter has thrived on the creative energies at Krea and has been nurtured through celebrations and acknowledgements of accomplishments and contributions by diverse stakeholders within the Kreaverse. Krea, this Week is an echo of the sentiment - interwoven.
Time and again, every day at Krea, we have proven that interwoven is more than just a term. Everything we do at Krea, is through the lens of the interwoven. Knowledge that traverses the spectrum of interests, disciplines, ideas and concepts; used to identify solutions from complex crisscrossing problems surrounding the world to everyday challenges.
Here is to many more editions where we up the ante further and it won’t be possible without the continued support of each of us at Krea. Krea, this Week has truly been an ode to the interwoven strengths at Krea. As always, 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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The debate team at SIAS secured the runner-up position at the National Law School of India University (Bengaluru) in the Novice Debate Category. The team secured first place in the prelims and then went on to qualify for semi finals, won the semis, and made it to the finals. The team consisted of Siya Girisaballa (Cohort of 2025) as the first speaker, Tejas Narayan (Cohort of 2025) as the second speaker, and Sibhi Aravindan (Cohort of 2027) as the third speaker. Sibhi secured the 'Best Speaker' award in the finals of the Novice Category. Congratulations team!
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The Ashoka-Sage Prize for Critical Writing
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Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, SIAS, Krea University, and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP (Centre for Writing and Pedagogy) won The Ashoka-Sage Prize for Critical Writing at the Critical Writing Pedagogies Symposium held at Ashoka University between 6 - 7 April, 2024, for their paper presentation titled Form and Formula – Reflections on Teaching Technical & Journalistic Writing in Mathematics.
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In this paper, Dr Vivek Tewary and Sayantan Datta draw upon their experience of teaching the Writing and Communication in Mathematics course at Krea University to design a possible framework for writing courses in Mathematics. The course taught math writing in technical and journalistic registers. To read research articles in Mathematics, writing pedagogy techniques developed at the Centre for Writing and Pedagogy at Krea are used, and it has been found that these are in resonance with how expert mathematicians read Mathematics. They also juxtaposed the technical and journalistic registers to highlight the aims, concerns and disciplinary contours of the two styles of writing. The two-day Critical Writing Pedagogies Symposium was organised by the Undergraduate Writing Programme (UWP) at Ashoka University, in partnership with Sage, to "explore writing pedagogies and how these can deepen the thinking of students in higher education."
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Insights into Exploring Queer and Trans Community Building
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Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP, Neha Mishra, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP, and Dr Pushpesh Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, co-author a paper titled Queer and trans community building in post-NALSA and post-377 India: a critical reflection, published in the Community Development Journal (Oxford University Press).
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In this paper, the authors trace (a) the challenges faced by queer and trans communities and (b) challenges to queer and trans community building in contemporary India by tracing recent developments in the contexts of health, public policy, jurisprudence, social institutions, education, popular culture, and the precarity of gender and sexually transgressive communities during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. They also look at narratives of hope that demonstrate how queer and trans people in post-legal reform India continue to build enabling and affirmative communities in the face of an increasingly neoliberalising country. This article serves as an introduction to the upcoming special issue of Community Development Journal (Oxford University Press) of the same name, edited by Dr Pushpesh Kumar, Sayantan Datta, and Neha Mishra.
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Selection for the JSIT programme
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Dr Suchika Chopra, Assistant Professor of Economics, SIAS, Krea University has been chosen for the Junior Scholar Intensive Training (JSIT) programme scheduled for June 2024. This programme, hosted by the UW-Madison Retirement and Disability Research Center (UW RDRC) and supported by the United States Social Security Administration Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC), is a week-long research training initiative. Its purpose is to provide mentored training to 15 scholars who are researching social safety nets, social insurance, and retirement and disability issues. Specifically, Dr Chopra will be working on understanding how state policies such as Medicare and Medicaid protect near-retirement households from the financial risk of healthcare expenses.
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Additionally, on 9 February, 2024, Dr Chopra presented her paper titled Understanding the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany: Asset Value vs. Asset Ownership at the Annual Conference on Economics and Finance hosted by BITS Pilani, Hyderabad. This paper documents and investigates the gender wealth disparity among married and cohabiting couples in Germany, highlighting that this disparity stems from both differences in asset ownership at the extensive margin and differences in wealth given asset ownership at the intensive margin.
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Dr Praveen Bhagawan, Associate Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance & Area Chair – Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance, IFMR GSB (Graduate School of Business), Krea University actively participated in the Financial Markets and Corporate Governance (FMCG) 2024 Conference, held on 2 – 4 April, 2024, at Monash University, Malaysia. During the conference, Dr Bhagawan presented two papers, engaged in discussions on three papers, and served as the chair for a technical session. Dr Bhagawan presented the following papers - Does Related Party Transactions Affect Cash Holding in India: Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment, and Does the Introduction of Bank Loan Credit Ratings matter for Firm's Leverage: Evidence from Indian Firms?
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Additionally, he contributed to discussions on the following papers - The Impact of Geopolitical Risk on Bank Stability: Global Evidence; Family Firms and Risk Taking: Is ESG a Mitigant?, and The Effect of the Switch to the Expected Credit Loss Model for Loan Loss Provisioning on Cross-border Borrowing.
Dr Bhagawan also chaired Technical Session 2.2 on Sustainable Finance and Corporate Finance during FMCG 2024. Furthermore, he was part of the PhD programme committee of FMCG 2024.
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Celebrating 100 Years of Sociology in India
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Dr Rama Devi, Visiting Assistant Professor, SIAS, Krea University, along with Professor Sawmya Ray, IIT Guwahati, delivered an invited talk titled, Not just work, but a respectable work: Caste, Gender, and Employment at the International Conference Celebrating 100 Years of Sociology in India, organised by the University of Hyderabad between 1-3 April, 2024.
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Impact of COVID-19 on farmers
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Professor Madhuri Saripalle, Professor, Economics & MBA Chairperson, IFMR GSB, Krea Univeristy along with Dr Vijaya Chebolu-Subramanian recently published her paper, Impact of COVID-19 on production decisions of marginal, small and medium farmers: empirical evidence from South India in the Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies. This study analyses the impact of COVID-19 on agricultural production in South India by evaluating the influence of market channels and socioeconomic conditions on the production decisions of farmers during two key cropping seasons.
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Machine Learning in Manufacturing
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Dr Debasish Mishra, Assistant Professor, Data Science & Information Systems, IFMR GSB, Krea University recently published his latest research article on the applications of machine learning in manufacturing. The article demonstrates a methodology for diagnosis and prognosis of cutting tools in precision machining processes, which has been validated using machining tests conducted on three different machines with varying machining parameters to develop a generalised solution.
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Krea Connect was great, but now it gets even better. Krea Connect has always been a one-stop help desk for all things Krea for aspirants and now, it will offer dedicated weekly virtual interactions on the most frequently sought for topics.
This Wednesday, it was all about the Admissions Process and the upcoming session on 17 April, 2024 will be all about academic programmes at SIAS, Krea University.
If you may know any interested candidates, please do ask them to register.
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Last week, the SIAS Admissions team hosted some of our incoming students and their families on the campus for the Experience Krea Day. This one-day event gave students and parents/guardians the chance to live the Krea life for a day. From interacting with faculty members, the Deans, and fellow university students to even discussing campus affairs, careers, and well-being with university administration, the attendees had a blast. The vibrant Krea campus had more than 200 excited visitors who ended the day on a high!
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The theme of this year's Environmental Communication class was Waste. The final assignment is a feature article on some aspect of Waste. In a session organised on 11 April, 2024 students shared how they have come to understand waste and what inspired them to write about their particular topic. The session was titled, The Afterlives of Waste: Glimpses from the Environmental Communication Classroom.
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Ambedkar Jayanti Celebration
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As part of the ongoing Ambedkar Jayanti Programme organised by ILS (Inclusive Learning Support) and Division of Politics, a virtual talk on the Relevance of Ambedkar’s ‘Annihilation of Caste’ to Identity Politics in India Today, by Professor Syed Sayeed will be hosted today, 12 April, 2024 at 5.00 pm. Professor Syed Sayeed is a retired professor of Philosophy from The English and Foreign Languages University and is the author of Understanding B.R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste.
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As part of the Ambedkar Jayanti Programme two film screenings have also been arranged. Blue Star on 13 April, 2024 and Sarpatta Parambarai on 14 April, 2024 at Krea University campus.
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Two short original plays emerging from the course, 'Science, History, and Theatre' will be showcased on 12 April, 2024 between 9:00 and 11:00 pm at Seminar Hall-3 in the Krea University campus. The first one being, Spices and Sickness, a journey through a bygone era of our colonial past, as we witness colonisation on various frontiers of life. In their ambition, the Dutch Republic directs its ire towards the Indian subcontinent. However, amidst their efforts to forge alliances with royals and displace native populations, they find themselves besieged by a mysterious and insidious enemy—a miasmatic foe against which victory seems unimaginable. Spices and Sickness will be showcased from 9:00 pm - 9:45 pm.
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మా వ్యాధి, మీ పతనం (Mā vyādhi, mī patanaṁ), 17th Century India. 17th Century Pulicat will be showcased between 10:15 pm - 11:00 pm. It is among loose looms and losses that Irfan finds a right to rebellion against an invasion of the body, the mind and the soul. In a small humid house among the heterogeneous settlement of power - a coup d’état of mosquitoes, man and myrobalam.
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Under the History Lecture Series, join us for a talk on The Hortus malabaricus: South Asian Botany on the Malabar Coast by Professor Dániel Margócsy from the University of Cambridge. The talk is slated for 19 April, 2024 at 2:30 pm at 3C, Krea University Campus. Discover the fascinating journey behind the creation of the Hortus malabaricus, the first large-scale encyclopedia of South Asian botany from the late 17th century. Professor Margócsy will delve into the rich history and diverse contributions that led to the making of this extraordinary work, shedding light on the role of religious spirituality in shaping botanical studies on the Malabar
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coast. Professor Dániel Margócsy is Professor of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), and, with Mark Somos and Stephen N. Joffe, The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
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Next in our series, Architects of Impact, in collaboration with Water, Environment, Land and Livelihoods (WELL) Labs. Turning the spotlight on - STEWARDS.
Tropical drylands are home to some of the poorest and most marginalised communities, and are highly vulnerable to climate change. In these regions, groundwater plays a vital role in sustaining water supplies and livelihoods. The Sustainable Transition Explorations in Water and Agriculture for Resilient Dryland Systems (STEWARDS) project aims to address the critical need to identify equitable, sustainable and climate-resilient development pathways in tropical drylands through Transformational Labs. This project will result in the creation of long-term assets and capacities to achieve transformational change.
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A handful of future management professionals from the 2 year MBA Programme at IFMR GSB, Krea University emphasise the significance of diversity within the institution. They underscore how this diversity serves as a cornerstone, uniting a spectrum of perspectives, backgrounds, and insights, thus enhancing the educational milieu and equipping students for the demands of an increasingly interconnected professional landscape.
An inclusive environment at IFMR GSB, Krea University, welcomes all, where every student is valued and given equal opportunities to thrive and make meaningful contributions to the collective.
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