Discover stories from the Archives at NCBS
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K S Krishnan’s Annotated Map of South India
A scientist, a snail researcher, and a historian observe and reflect on one object – a map belonging to neurobiologist K S Krishnan. The map is one of the many papers that document a collaborative project during the early 2000s, initiated by K S Krishnan to collect cone snails from across the east and west…
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Mani Ramaswami on Chasing Conotoxins and Bringing Biology to the Beach
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…
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Archiving a cytogeneticist’s material
I immensely enjoyed archiving A P Krishnaja’s material, primarily because as a Biology graduate with molecular biology research experience, sifting through her laboratory data felt like looking through a window to the past. Various laboratory methods have evolved over time to accommodate the growing needs of the researcher, but certain routines have been preserved from…
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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…
