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Students engaged in a workshop on literary translation today with the editorial team of Hyphen, a new magazine bringing the best of vernacular literature to English readers.

The session included the reading of select excerpts from the writings and speeches of Ambedkar, followed by thematic discussions on caste, politics and environmentalism, themes that are central to Ambedkarite thought. It concluded with the screening of the Tamil documentary 'Punishing the Professor,' directed by Aayna, adding a contemporary critical perspective to the discussions.

On the occasion of the 135th birth anniversary of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, MISHA organized an Ambedkar Reading Circle on 14 April 2026 to commemorate his enduring intellectual and political legacy.

Join us for a collective engagement with Ambedkar's ideas and contribution on 14th April 2026, at Lake Campus, MISHA

Suvangee Gupta writes on the importance of paternity leave for the Counter Currents. countercurrents.org/2026/04/the-im…

Congratulations to Dr. Amrita Jash for her latest book chapter, co-authored with Dr. Anand V, in China's evolving diplomacy in the post- Cold War era with a focus on Xi-Ping's 'new era'. linkedin.com/posts/amritaja…

Many congratulations to Yashodhan Deodhar for winning the first prize in the Poetry (hindi) competition in the ongoing -UTSAV -2026, organised by MAHE.

Pursue a PhD at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education. Interested candidates in the Humanities and Social Sciences may refer to the poster provided here.

The Department of Geopolitics and International Relations (MISHA) invites you to a special lecture by Dr Ana-Gabriela Pantea (Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca- Romania)

Prof Amrita Jash writes in 'The Word this Quarter' published by Global Politics @ National Institute of Advanced Studies. The article provides a snapshot to China's evolving external relations.

Congratulations to Prof Jagriti Gangopadhyay on her latest book publication 'Pandemic Mothering and Neoliberalism: Insights from India' (Routledge: 2026) routledge.com/Pandemic-Mothe… @MAHE_Manipal @JagritiGangopa1 @routledgebooks

MISHA organised a research talk titled , “Assembling a Brahmin Life: What is at stake?” by Dr. Ramesh Bairy T. S. Drawing on Veena Bannanje’s memoir 'SatyakamaroDane nanna saavirada dinagalu'(2013), the session traced how a life is not merely inherited, but continuously assembled. In doing so, it opened up a critical lens on the figure of the “modern and progressive” Brahmin, revealing it not as a settled identity, but as a site of tension, negotiation, and moral self-fashioning within an increasingly plural world.

MISHA invites you to an upcoming research talk by Ranesh Bairy TS, Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. The talk will explore how notions of inheritance, ethics, and everyday practices come together in shaping contemporary Brahmin life, raising critical questions about identity, belonging, and moral worlds in a plural society. 27 March 2026 - 3PM

MISHA hosted Dr Mihir Sharma, Post Doctoral researcher at the University of Breman for a guest lecture. Dr Sharma explains how the emergence of the activist, occurs alongside and in spite of the party worker. At times also at the expense of the latter.

Mihir Sharma, Post Doctoral researcher at the University of Bremen will deliver a talk ‘The Activist as Subject: Late Capitalism, Political Subjectivity and Theories of Change.

MISHA is delighted to share that our PhD scholar, Meghna Haridas, has been selected for the prestigious MAHE–Deakin Cotutelle Program, a dual doctoral initiative between Manipal Academy of Higher Education and Deakin University. The collaborative program allows Meghna to pursue a segment of her to doctoral research at Deakin University- Melbourne, Australia.

MISHA organised the launch of Qualitative Narratives of Space and Gender, a collection of scholarly narratives by its doctoral scholars exploring diverse qualitative methodologies. The volume is edited by Dr. Jagriti Gangopadhyay at MISHA and was formally launched by Dr. Asha Banu Soletti, Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. We congratulate all the contributors and celebrate this collective academic effort.