A Round-up of the Kreaverse
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Each day brings with it, a fresh wave of insights, learnings and experiences.
To capture the essence of life at Krea, we are evolving, day after day, to add to what we share as part of Krea, this Week. And all in the hope to allow you a glimpse into the diverse range of events, initiatives and happenings that make up the Krea ecosystem.
As part of this endeavour, we've launched three new sections — 'Student in Spotlight' which is a straight-from-the-heart sharing by students on their life, learnings and stories; also going live this week is 'Library Picks' which is our attempt to showcase our newest acquisitions in the world of books and, lastly, ‘Campus Clicks’ which features the many shades of the Krea campus through the lens of the students.
We at the Communications team are committed to constantly grow and evolve and we aspire to keep doing what we do, fuelled - needless to add - by your unwavering support. Tell us what you think!
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A weekly series showcasing students and their stories
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This week, Pragya Sharan, Cohort of 2024, IFMR GSB, speaks about taking a big career leap from dentistry to pursue an MBA; in a short three-questions only interview, she talks about how life has changed since Med school and her own contribution to the diverse and dynamic community at Krea. Watch this interview for more!
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Students from the Kreaverse capture a slice of Krea on camera
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Thank you, Ritika Yadav, Cohort of 2024, IFMR GSB, for this picture.
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Krea University is playing host to a Perso-Arabic Calligraphy Residency and Workshop with Global Arts, CWP, and OSL this weekend until 19 March. Artist Shaikh Ahsaanuddin will showcase his nasta'liq calligraphy skills in the Pottery Lab. Visitors have the privilege of observing his art, interacting with him, and attending immersive workshops in the evenings.
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Tonight, at 9.30 pm, the Students Hub on campus will come alive with an acoustic evening. This event, curated by the SIAS Music Club, Antara, will feature 17 songs by 20 talented members of this club. From English to Hindi, Tamil to Telugu, and even Assamese, the performances will span various genres and time periods.
See the poster and don't forget to show up!
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On World Poetry Day, 21 March 2023, K Srilata — a renowned writer, translator, and academic — will take over Krea University's Instagram handle for a special poetry reading session titled The Unmistakable Presence of Poetry.
Srilata has published five collections of poetry and various anthologies. Her latest book, This Kind of Child: The `Disability’ Story, includes first-person accounts, interviews, and short fiction on the disability experience.
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In the section, All Things Under the Sun, published as part of Krea, this Week, dated 10 March, we shared a couple of articles from prominent publications that seemed objectionable to some members of the Krea community. We, at the Communications team, recognise that the voices of the writers and their perspectives are not inclusive and we apologise for sharing them on the Krea platform.
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An Oscar for The Elephant Whisperers — a love story about people and pachyderms by Kamala Thiagarajan
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This week, Dr Praveen Bhagawan M, Associate Professor of Finance, Accounting, and Quantitative Finance; Area Chair – Accounting and Finance, IFMR GSB, Krea University, recommends How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About The Numbers.
In this book, Mihir Desai – a professor at Harvard Business School and author of The Wisdom of Finance – guides you into the complex but endlessly fascinating world of finance, demystifying it in the process.
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Titan: The Story of India’s Most Successful Consumer Brand by Vinay Kamath, Associate Editor, The Hindu BusinessLine
Titan: Inside India's Most Successful Consumer Brand takes readers on a journey through the boardrooms and back rooms of the Tatas to discover how they created a quintessential Indian brand that defied restrictive norms and achieved remarkable success. The book is a story of innovation, fortitude, and staying the course, with an obsession for detail and the courage to acknowledge failure.
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Rangasthala, the Theatre Club of SIAS at Krea University, recently staged a series of monologues to allow actors to deeply understand a single character and fully express their emotions. Speaking about the production, Shresth Bansal, club representative, said that "focussing on monologues allowed the team to prioritise the art of acting rather than spending excessive time on the intricate details of a play such as costumes, props, and set design. We witnessed a fantastic array of performances. Vidhi did an excellent job with the sound, mics, and lights, while Sarthak's hosting and marketing of Rangasthala brought us together as students, friends, and actors, making it a great experience overall." The performances, including 'Highway', 'A few good men', and 'Haider', led to discussions about the struggles of sexual harassment victims, naval officers, and the people of Kashmir respectively. The club has also, in the past, staged plays like 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist', short stories of Manto, and is working on other plays.
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On March 14, Kothari Hall at Krea University glowed in the warm, comforting and philosophical light of verses from the Nirgun tradition, in a performance by musicians, Pavithra Chari, Mayur Davay and MT Aditya Srinivasan, curated by the Office of Student Life (OSL). With a set list thoughtfully ideated by Pavithra Chari, a musician, composer and student of acclaimed artiste, Shubha Mudgal, the evening celebrated the simple but profound poetry of poets like Kabir and Dadu Dayal, letting us all reflect upon the core of life and our existence in this world full of frills and suffering. For those who attended the evening – and the hall was near full – it was truly an evening, well-spent!
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The Psychology department at Krea University recently screened 'Daughters of Scheherazade', followed by a discussion with filmmaker Dr Ranjini Krishnan. The film challenges the traditional narrative of virginity and presents a new perspective in the form of an ill-lit nuptials chamber. Ranjini's attempt as a filmmaker was to overcome the anxiety of this claustrophobic encounter and create permeable environments through her practice, where both the acts of theorising and filmmaking are in constant need of re-imagining their object domain. This work is an experiment in that direction and is informed by psychoanalytically informed ethnographic research on the Indian wedding night and its erotic economy.
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Episode 5 of The Common Babbler podcast series was released early this week. The Common Babbler is a collective and interactive platform that aims to explore diverse ways of communicating science and scientific research in an undergraduate classroom, in dialogue with experts and practitioners. In a conversation titled Protein Dynamics and Parkinson's Disease, the fifth in this podcast series, Prof Christian Griesinger, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences and Honorary Professor of the University of Göttingen, Germany, and Dr Kalyan Chakrabarti, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, SIAS, Krea University discuss how proteins, like ubiquitin, recognise their many different partners via short-lived intermediates.
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Dr Gayathri Sampath, MBA Programme Chairperson and Associate Professor of Strategy at IFMR GSB, Krea University, was recently awarded the 'Outstanding Woman Researcher in Strategic Management' award by the Venus International Foundation in Chennai for her contributions and achievements in the field of management. Congratulations Dr Gayathri!
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Writer Mihir Vatsa conducted a 90-minute session on Nature and Place Writing at Krea University. This masterclass was part of the Krea Literature and Environmental Studies club activities. This session was conceptualised to develop the participants’ critical and creative perceptions about their location in the larger human-non-human ecosystem. To accomplish this, the students undertook an exercise in ‘spatialization’— that is, to conjure ‘spaces’ out of a single, geographical place. The students produced creative work and examined the ideological binaries like the natural and the man-made, wilderness and civilization, the urban and the pastoral, and human and nature.
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The Centre for Writing and Pedagogy (CWP) at Krea University, conducted a writing workshop for the students of ACJ-Bloomberg Business and Financial Journalism Programme at the Asian College of Journalism on 13 March. Titled A Shelled Nut, the workshop was conducted by Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, CWP and Sayantan Datta, Faculty Teaching Associate, CWP. The duo focussed on reading for technique and on writing and revising sentences that best address nut graphs. Participants engaged in exercises that demonstrated how to read like a writer by focussing on summary and sentence construction.
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