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SUMMARY:PICTORIAL PROTEST AND POLITICAL PROPHECY IN INDIA TODAY | Revisiting Political Cartooning in India
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Visual Arts is delighted to invite you to the fourth colloquium in the Visual Arts Colloquium Series\, Monsoon 2025. \nTitle: PICTORIAL PROTEST AND POLITICAL PROPHECY IN INDIA TODAY  \nRevisiting Political Cartooning in India \nSpeaker: Prof. Christel R Devadawson \nDate: October 28th\, 2025. 1.30 pm \nVenue: Visual Arts Studio (near sports block) \nAbstract: When I worked on my book Out of Line: Cartoons\, Caricature and Contemporary India\, I grew to believe that political cartooning served best as analysis rather than as prophecy. I have since come to understand that the discipline of pictorial protest carries a significant charge of political prophecy\, which makes it an essential if troubling presence in the public sphere. I'd like to revisit political cartooning in India after '47 to see where this line of enquiry might lead. \nBio: A Cambridge-Nehru scholar for her PhD\, Christel R Devadawson is currently Professor\, Department of English\, University of Delhi\, where she has worked since 2001. She served as Head from 2015-2018. Before moving to the University\, Christel lectured at St Stephen’s College from 1986-2001. She served as Head of the English Department in college from 2000-2001. \nChristel’s most recent publication in the field of Visual Studies is ‘Visual Advocacy\, the Gandhi icon\, and the Shaping of Contemporary India\,’ in David Bulla (ed) Gandhi: Advocacy\, Journalism and the Media\,’ (Peter Lang\, 2022). She has a chapter entitled ‘Troubling the Waters: Graphic Advocacy and the Indo-Sri Lankan Fisher Folk’s Tale\,’ in an upcoming volume on South Asian visual culture. Her books include Out of line: Cartoons\, Caricature and Contemporary India (Blackswan\, 2014)\, and Reading India\, writing England: The Fiction of Rudyard Kipling and E M Forster (Macmillan\, 2005). With Shormishtha Panja and Shirshendu Chakrabarti she edited Word Image Text: Nature and time in literature and the visual arts (Blackswan 2009\, repr 2017). \nJoin us for a thought-provoking talk on how India’s political cartoons have not only captured our times – but dared to predict them. \nThe conversation will continue over tea/coffee after the talk. See you there! \n  \nWarm regards\, \nVisual Arts Department
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/pictorial-protest-and-political-prophecy-in-india-today-revisiting-political-cartooning-in-india/
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SUMMARY:Talk Organised by The Department of Computer Science\, History and Mathematics
DESCRIPTION:Dear all\, \nWe are delighted to invite you to a talk by Professor Amartya Kumar Dutta (Indian Statistical Institute\, Kolkata)\, titled “Was There Sophisticated Mathematics During the Vedic Era?” \nAbstract: Ancient India had a strong tradition in mathematics. This is a truth brought forward with much wealth of detail by dedicated historians of mathematics like Bibhutibhusan Datta. The roots of this tradition go back to at least the Vedic period. Explicit records of some of the mathematical knowledge of the Vedic era occur in the Sulba-sutras and other Sutra texts. Glimpses of the mathematical developments in the Vedic period also come out indirectly but clearly from even the Samhita and Brahmana portions of the Vedas themselves.  In ‘The Science of the Sulba\, A Study in Early Hindu Geometry’ (1932)\, B. Datta expresses his  sublime wonder at the mathematical accomplishments of the Vedic savants: “How great is the science which revealed itself in the Sulba\, and how meagre is my intellect! I have aspired to cross the unconquerable ocean in a mere raft.” The eminent mathematician Abraham Seidenberg too marvels at the mathematical contributions during the Vedic period in his papers like ‘The Ritual Origin of Geometry’ (1962)\, ‘The Origin of Mathematics’ (1978) and ‘The Geometry of Vedic Rituals’ (1983). In this talk\, we shall demonstrate a few specific examples from the constructive geometry of the Sulba-sutras\, discuss their mathematical sophistication and highlight the ‘geometric algebra’ manifested in the constructions. Time permitting\, we shall also cite examples to show the strength of Vedic India in computational mathematics. \nBio: Amartya Kumar Dutta is a Professor of Mathematics at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI)\, Kolkata. He obtained his PhD in Mathematics under Prof. S.M. Bhatwadekar at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)\, Mumbai\, in 1994\, and has several research publications in Commutative Algebra and Affine Algebraic Geometry. A recipient of the INSA Teachers Award\, Prof. Dutta has taught\, mentored and guided several students since he joined ISI Kolkata as a faculty member in 1996. For the past 25 years\, Prof. Dutta has also been regularly delivering lectures and writing articles on topics in the history of science\, especially on ancient Indian mathematics. He is the recipient of the first Satish C Bhatnagar Award in History of Mathematics of the Indian Mathematical Society. Prof. Dutta has been teaching history of mathematics in ancient India and science in modern India in the one-year Indology course at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture\, Kolkata.  From January 2022\, Prof. Dutta has been writing serially on mathematics in India in the mathematics magazine\, BhAvanA. \nLooking forward to having you with us.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/talk-organised-by-the-department-of-computer-science-history-and-mathematics/
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SUMMARY:Physics Seminar
DESCRIPTION: Abstract: In our solar system\, terrestrial and giant planets differ in architecture and chemistry. To understand this\, we must study planet-forming disks and their structural variation. As part of the ODISEA project (Ophiuchus DIsk Survey Employing ALMA)\, I present 55 faint disks at 0.05” (7 au) resolution and 45 brighter disks at 0.2” (28 au) resolution at 400 GHz. This study uniquely analyzes the images and radial profiles of 100 disks in a single molecular cloud\, investigating how disk substructures evolve with disk sizes\, mass\, and SED Class. Theoretically\, we anticipate a higher population of young embedded (≤ 1 Myr) featureless disks compared to evolved Class II (a few Myr) featureless disks. However\, we observe a similar population of embedded (66%) and Class II (57%) featureless disks (Bhowmik et al in prep.). One explanation could be the presence of pressure bumps that halt grain growth and structural evolution in the disks. Further insight into our solar system’s 200+ moons suggests that giant exoplanets may also have exo-satellites. Despite successful high-contrast imaging (HCI) of giant planets and brown dwarfs (BDs)\, exo-satellites remain undetected. Recently observed triple systems like ε Indi and GJ569 inspire searches for massive exo-satellites\, particularly around BDs. We employ a negative fake injection technique to suppress companions’ (BD or planet) brightness using observed stellar PSFs in the search for exo-satellites. Our sample includes over ten BDs and exoplanets observed by SPHERE/VLT’s integral field spectrograph (IFS)\, targeting objects like GQ Lup B and PZ Tel B. I will present post-processed residual images treated with angular spectral differential imaging and negative fake injection. I will focus on companion surroundings\, contrast curves\, and mass-limited plots to identify exo-satellites around these companions. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: Trisha Bhowmik compleated her PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Paris Observatory in 2019. Since 2021\, she has been conducting postdoctoral research in Chile in University of Diego Portales and University of Santiago Chile working on ALMA radio observations and high contrast imaging with VLT. \nWe look forward to your active participation.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/physics-seminar/
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SUMMARY:YIF × UG Mixer in RH 2 Commons
DESCRIPTION:The YIF × UG Mixer\, hosted by the MAA and the YIF Academic Council\, is an evening of connection and conversation between Fellows and Ashoka’s Undergraduate community. Designed to develop collaboration and dialogue\, the mixer brings together diverse academic and professional journeys in a relaxed\, engaging setting. It’s an annual social gathering for YIF’s and UG’s.  \nLocation: RH 2 Commons \nDate: 28th October 2025\nTime: 6:30 – 8:30 PM IST \n  \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/yif-ug-mixer-in-rh-2-commons/
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