Discover stories from the Archives at NCBS
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Out of focus
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…
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Cranes, Ladakh, and Sálim Ali
At first glance, doesn’t it seem like a typical field image from the 1970s? Men with binoculars and cameras, an all-male group of researchers in the foreground of a barren landscape. Let’s zoom in now: there are soldiers in uniform, military jeeps, and also what appear to be barracks in the background. Now, for me,…
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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…
