Obaid Siddiqi's letter to MGK Menon (April 8, 1969), where he expresses his lack of interest in a prospective senior faculty applicant, stating that his "published work does not provide evidence of originality and independent ability".
The “Old TIFR building” that housed the TIFR group at IISc has gone through many incarnations. After TIFR moved out, it housed the IISc Archives. It’s now home to various IISc labs, including the Centre for Neuroscience. As seen in this image…
NCBS support staff, from a 1995-97 Annual Report. Left column: T Venkatesh (purchase), TM Sahadevan (administration), Shaju Varghese (Canteen, security, housekeeping), Shailaja (purchasing), Meena Srinivasan and S Umashahsi (Library). Right column:…
An assortment of images from the NCBS 1995-97 Annual Report. Left column: Satyajit Mayor's lab meeting, MK Mathew's group, Jayant Udgaonkar and Mitradas Panicker. Right column: Gaiti Hasan's group, Jayant Udgaonkar's students, Avinash Shenoy (IT…
Most of the NCBS faculty, staff and students in early 1995, at the TIFR Centre, IISc. Notable people missing in the photo are two faculty members, Obaid Siddiqi and K VijayRaghavan, and Shaju Varghese, who moved from TIFR to set up the kitchen (and…
In May 1992, a Project Management Committee (PMC) was set up to oversee all matters related to the construction of NCBS. Similarly, an internal Steering Committee looked after day to day functioning needs at NCBS.
Around the time when the agreement was signed between University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) and NCBS, politicians got a whiff of it and demanded a probe into the sale of 20 acres to TIFR.
Rabbit cages in the pre-fab animal house, part of the NCBS TIFR centre campus at IISc, mid 1990s. A full fledged animal house came up by the late 1990s on the current NCBS campus
The new crew moving to Bangalore needed to set up temporary labs to start working while they went through bureaucratic hurdles to procure land and build a new campus. In 1989, TIFR’s radio astronomy group led by Govind Swarup moved out of their…
The new crew moving to Bangalore needed to set up temporary labs to start working while they went through bureaucratic hurdles to procure land and build a new campus. In 1989, TIFR’s radio astronomy group led by Govind Swarup moved out of their…
Discussions in the faculty meeting in November 1962 regarding the funding source for Siddiqi's lab (around the time that Obaid Siddiqi joined TIFR, the war broke out between India and China).
Discussions in the faculty meeting in November 1962 regarding the funding source for Siddiqi's lab (around the time that Obaid Siddiqi joined TIFR, the war broke out between India and China).
Homi Bhabha's office memo from July 1962, where he informs his staff of the intent to start a molecular biology programme. He solicits input on equipment available for Obaid Siddiqi's work.
An excerpt from a draft of the letter that Homi Bhabha wrote to Sorabji Tata in 1944, outlining his desire to build a new research institute for physics.
Sujata Varadarajan, one of K VijayRaghavan's first students, at the TIFR Centre campus in 1996. Varadarajan is looking at Drosphila that had wing defects due to mutations in a gene. It was a genetic defect that K VijayRaghavan and Veronica Rodrigues…
Mitradas Panicker's (top row, fourth from left) research group at NCBS, c 2004. Also seen is Aditi Bhattacharya (front row, second from left), now a research faculty at InStem.