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“”Birds of Bihar… Birds of Bihar…” she would keep mumbling this over and over again in her last days. I am not sure why she kept repeating the phrase. Perhaps it was a draft of a book that she was writing, or a project she wanted to undertake. I do not really know. But as her mind crumbled, it was something that she would keep reiterating to me over and over, almost as if she was in a daze,” recalled Madhuca Singh, Jamal Ara’s daughter, while I interviewed her for my essay on her mother’s life. The story of Jamal… read more
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As a biology major interested in the history of science and medicine, the P K Sukumaran collection piqued my interest. For one, he hailed from Thalassery in Kerala, north of my hometown, and his research on understanding sickle cell anemia was something that we often came across in newspaper reports and biology textbooks. But my introduction to Sukumaran’s scientific process happened in 2024, while I was working at the Archives at NCBS, processing a collection that was closely related to the hematologist, while his own papers were being processed by another colleague. However, I soon found myself involved due to… read more
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ARCHIVES IN FRAMES
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February is archives at its busiest. Anyone dropping by the space will find the team running down corridors with a trolley full of boxes, frantically removing staple pins, chugging down sugar with extra coffee, crying in front of spreadsheets, and having meetings after meetings because the big ol’ “launch” is approaching. In Archives at NCBS vocabulary, the “launch” is the annual public event where the team presents archival collections that they have processed throughout the year along with a new exhibition. This month’s ‘Archives in Frames’ features the team digging through the catalog (and their phone gallery) to find other… read more
The Silverfish is a project by the Archives at NCBS to share ideas, reflections, and experiences of individuals who have engaged with the archives and its collections. These are presently in the form of articles by archivists and researchers. But we are hoping to expand our scope and are open to entries by anyone who has a story to tell about the archives. This can be in formats across text and visual media. If you are interested in contributing,
write to archives-outreach@ncbs.res.in.