Discover stories from the Archives at NCBS
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The Almirah – In Search of Jamal Ara’s Papers
“”Birds of Bihar… Birds of Bihar…” she would keep mumbling this over and over again in her last days. I am not sure why she kept repeating the phrase. Perhaps it was a draft of a book that she was writing, or a project she wanted to undertake. I do not really know. But as…
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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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Federico or a manifesto on the ethics of description
If I speak – If in this minute, I prise open the spines of old texts and extract the root Mirror it ten-fold to consequence and stymy it in time – have I caught history? Like one might catch a cold? Is it upon me, the malign epic, the stentorian saga? By my naming do…
