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13/09/2026

🎓 Alumnus Ashish Kumar P Appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford 🇮🇳➡️🇺🇸

We are delighted to share that Ashish Kumar P., an alumnus of the Department of Communication, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad (MA Communication, 2011–13), has been appointed a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Communications at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, USA. 🎉

📽️ A first-generation university graduate from Hyderabad, Ashish is a documentary filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist. After his MA at UoH, he earned an MFA in Media Arts, Cinema and Television Arts from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

🎬 His MFA thesis film, In/Dignity, follows Ambedkar statues in India and the US to explore caste, memory, and the politics of visibility — combining personal narrative, archive, field interviews, and experimental form.

🎥 Along the way, he has worked as a director, assistant director, and post-production editor across Indian and international media, collaborating with Google, NTFP-EP, ICRISAT, community radio, and Ambedkarite collectives.

📚 At Pitt-Bradford, he teaches video and sound production in the Division of Communication and the Arts, framing the classroom as a collaborative space where students ask not just how a story is told, but why and for whom.

💬 In his note to the Department, Ashish wrote that the knowledge, guidance, and training he received during his MA at UoH were invaluable in shaping his artistic approach and academic career — and he hopes to build student/faculty exchange and joint research with his alma mater. 🤝

Congratulations, Ashish Kumar! Your journey is an inspiration to every student walking through the corridors of S N School. 👏💐



12/09/2026

📉 India's young population is no dividend without investment.

The Department of Communication, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad, hosted the 17th Dr. C V S Sarma Memorial Lecture on 11 September 2026, held annually in honour of our departed colleague and senior faculty member Dr. C V S Sarma.

This year's speaker was Mr. Maheshwer Peri, Founder and Chairman of Careers360, a data-led education and career planning platform, and former President & Publisher of the Outlook Group. His lecture: "Demographic Dividend or Demographic Nightmare: India's Ticking Time Bomb"

🎤 His central argument was that India's vast population does not by itself justify a claim to a demographic advantage. A dividend arrives when a nation invests in the education of its young — not merely in upskilling them for employment. Education, he argued, equips a young population with the capacity to think and a broad vision for both life and work.

Some of what he laid out:

📊 68.4% of Indians are of working age — but that describes an age profile, not productivity
💰 Education's share of net revenue receipts has fallen from a peak of 7.01% to 3.8%, against a promise of 6% restated by NEP 2020
🏫 Government colleges grew 1% while private colleges grew 42%; around 1.1 lakh government schools closed between 2015–16 and 2023–24
🎓 IIM Ahmedabad fees have risen from ₹3.16 lakh in 2012 to ₹27.5 lakh today
🧾 1.86 crore applications for roughly 55,000 advertised government posts — 338 candidates per vacancy
📚 In NEET, cities with top coaching institutes recorded an 87% success rate against 13.5% in cities without them
🚪 31.5% of students drop out between Classes 9 and 12

⚠️ Continued underinvestment, he warned, could turn the dividend into a disaster over the next twenty to thirty years.

💬 The lecture was well attended by students, faculty and members of Hyderabad's civil society, and was followed by a stimulating Q&A. Asked why education is not given greater priority, Mr. Peri was more hopeful than the lecture might suggest: education, he said, has become a subject of major public discussion, and people are now talking about schools and colleges — among the most positive developments in the country in recent years.

🙏 Our thanks to Mr. Peri for a lecture that gave our students far more to argue with than to simply agree with. 🎓

Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad S N School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad

18/07/2026

The 18th Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize

Call for Entries

Entries are invited from Indian citizens between 20-40 years of age and writing poetry in English for the 18th Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize. The Prize was instituted by the Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust to recognize excellence in poetry written in English and is being administered jointly by the Department of English, University of Hyderabad. The prize consisting of a cash award of Rs.15,000 and a citation will be presented at a literary event in Hyderabad. The entries will be judged by a distinguished jury of poets and literary personalities.

Entries must include:

1. Three (3) different, unpublished poems written by the applicant; Please put all the three poems in one single word or pdf document and not separate files. Do not send zip folders. The ID proof must be a separate file and not part of the poetry.

2. Evidence of age; (scanned copies of passport, driver’s license, pan card, or any other valid id)

3. Complete contact information (including phone numbers and email addresses).

Note: Please do not put your name on the poems to be submitted to the jury members.

Do not put your name as the filename.

Entries must be sent to Prof. Aparna Rayaprol, Convener, Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize, only by email ([email protected]) by September 1, 2026.

Please do not send hard copies by post.

https://www.srinivasrayaprol.in/srinivas-rayaprol-poetry-prize-2026-call-for-entries/

02/01/2021

05/05/2020

PROSPECTUS 2020-21 http://acad.uohyd.ac.in/ee20.html

UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD
(A Central University established by an Act of Parliament)
Visitor
The President of India
Chief Rector
The Governor of Telangana
Chancellor
Justice L. Narasimha Reddy
Vice-Chancellor
Prof. Appa Rao Podile
Pro Vice-Chancellor- 1
Prof. Arun Agarwal
Pro Vice-Chancellor- 2
Prof. B. Raja Shekhar