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SUMMARY:Covering The Nepal Tragedy - Natural Disasters and Role of Media
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Media Studies cordially invites you to a guest lecture on  \n Title: Covering The Nepal Tragedy – Natural Disasters and Role of Media \nDate & Time: 15th Sept. 2026 \nVenue: AC 04 005 \nThis talk is being organised as a guest lecture in the course Introduction to Newswriting and Reporting by Prof. Maya Mirchandani. \nSpeaker's Bio: Smita Sharma is a senior  award winning Independent multimedia Journalist. She is a Visiting Faculty at the Kautilya School of Public Policy in Hyderabad. She currently focuses on her own youtube channel and collaborates with independent digital platforms including The Red Mike and Newslaundry. \nIn more than 23 years of her  journalism career she has been the Foreign Policy Incharge \, Contributing Editor and Anchor with newsrooms including DD News\,  Network 18\, India Today TV\, TV9 Bharatvarsh and India Ahead. She was the Deputy Editor for one of India’s oldest dailies The Tribune. Her articles have been published in Deccan Herald\, TOI Plus\, The Hindu\, Hindustan Times\, Huffington Post\, Quint \,Dainik Bhaskar among others. She contributes to international news outlets including BBC\, Al Jazeera\, DW News\, TRT World\, VOA India. She has reported extensively in English and Hindi on wide ranging issues including foreign policy\, natural disasters\, terror strikes and conflicts\, elections\, politics and social developments. \nShe is an IVLP fellow to the US\, John Doherty Fellow to Australia and an alumni of the Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies (DKI-APCSS) in Hawaii.  She contributed chapters to books on Reporting on Foreign Policy and Challenges of Digital Journalism.  \nYou may find some of her recent work below: \nhttp://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc7ZE1wxajpg&si=axZlfGQ4LIPbj4tf \nhttps://www.deccanherald.com/author/smita-sharma \nhttps://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/8/28/nepali-families-pray-for-miracles-with-relatives-missing-after-flood \nhttps://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/9/2/nepal-floods-father-borrows-13-walks-for-days-to-search-for-missing-son \nYou may connet with the speaker on:\nTwitter/ X – @smita_sharma \nYoutube/ Facebook and Instagram- @SmitaSharmaJournalist\nLinkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/smita-sharma-91526577/ \n  \nWe look forward to having you with us for an engaging talk and discussion. \n  \nwarm regards\, \nMedia Studies Department
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SUMMARY:What’s in Our Air—and Can Technology Clean It Up?
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nWe are delighted to invite you to the first talk of the Environmental Studies Colloquium Series\, Monsoon 2026. \nDate & Time: 15 September\, 1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. \nVenue: AC-04-004 \nTopic: What’s in Our Air—and Can Technology Clean It Up? \nAbstract:  \nWhy do we face such severe air pollution? What have we done to address it\, and are our current solutions likely to work? This talk will explore what is in the air we breathe\, why air pollution remains such a persistent challenge\, and how technology is being used to understand\, monitor\, and tackle the problem. We will also ask a harder question: can technology alone save us from air pollution?  \nSpeakers: \nDr. Shahzad Gani is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences\, IIT Delhi\, where he leads the Noise\, Aerosols\, and Air Quality (NAAQ) group. He joined IIT Delhi in 2023\, following a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research\, University of Helsinki\, where he is now a Visiting Researcher. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and an MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin\, and a BTech in Civil Engineering from IIT Delhi. Shahzad is passionate about improving air quality and tackling climate change. His research aims at understanding the sources\, sinks\, and processes that drive atmospheric aerosols\, with a particular interest in the interplay between atmospheric aerosols\, meteorology\, and climate change. Alongside his academic research\, Shahzad is interested in environmental storytelling and science communication. He has written for The Indian Express\, The Hindu\, and The Wire\, and serves as an editor for Geoscience Communication and Aerosol Research. \nDr. Vidya Subramanian is an Associate Professor at the Jindal Global Law School. She completed her doctoral research at Jawaharlal Nehru University and subsequently held postdoctoral positions at IIT Bombay and Harvard University. Her doctoral research examined the impact of ICTs and television on cricket\, focusing on how these technologies transformed the sport\, the spectator\, and the broader cultural landscape. This work culminated in her first book\, Speeding Up Sport: Technology and the Indian Premier League (OUP\, 2023). Vidya is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research interests lie at the intersections of technology\, culture\, and society\, with a particular focus on the digital realm. Her work critically interrogates how technological systems mediate social and political life\, drawing on fields such as Science\, Technology\, and Society (STS)\, Sociology\, Media Studies\, and Sports Studies. Her research centres on India while engaging broader questions relevant to the Global South. She has also written on justice-seeking practices in the digital\, citizenship\, and the intersections of power\, technology\, and inequality. \nWe look forward to having you with us for an engaging talk and discussion. \n  \nwarm regards\, \nEnvironmental Studies Department
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