Discover stories from the Archives at NCBS
This interview developed from initial conversations that took place in 2025, when Mani Ramaswami visited the Archives at NCBS exhibition, ‘Untitled, Undated’, and shared his thoughts on an exhibit displaying the cone snail/conotoxin project by biologist K S Krishnan. A few weeks later, the exhibition curator, Dhatri, sat down with Mani, who joined online from…

“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…
