• What are clippings of food recipes doing at a science archive?

    My fellow archivist, Deepika, and I don’t see it as a coincidence that our first standalone collection from a woman scientist entered the archive after the team had expanded significantly to include more women archivists, some of us with a background in and keen understanding of the culture of science, feminist theory, women’s movements and… read more

  • A Wayanad Interlude

    “Bahugana said – ‘Don’t eat the salt of anyone, you will be beholden for life.’” “Nature is diverse, of course we need to be too.” “They call us the B-team of the Forest Department.” With humour and passion, the members of the Wayanad Prakrithi Samrakshana Samithi (WPSS) shared the history of their decades-old participation in… read more