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M S Swaminathan’s papers
The archives at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, is among the few repositories featuring a collection of papers from notable Indian scientists. In 2023, my research on radioisotopes and their research applications led me to the Archives at NCBS to consult the papers of Dr M.S. Swaminathan, who is widely hailed as… read more
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Why we changed the way we collect material in 2024
In 2023, we went on a rather energetic, and (for us) unprecedented drive to bring in exciting new material into the archives. Rather quickly into the year, we realised that the standard methods of acquisition just didn’t bring in archival material from female scientists, the way they did from male scientists. We had less of… read more
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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
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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
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