PN Bhavsar, scientific officer at TIFR from the 1960s till his retirement: On his interview process at TIFR in the 1960s for the position of a lab assistant.
N Shanthakumary, early hire in NCBS administration: Memories of entering the IISc campus for the first time in the early 1980s, and being hired into the system.
Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: Starting as a new NCBS member in the late 1990s, and the encounters with Obaid Siddiqi, K VijayRaghavan and Jayant Udgaonkar.
Excerpt from Homi Bhabha's speech in January 1966, at the International Council of Science. Bhabha mentions the hiring of Obaid Siddiqi and makes the connection to AV Hill's suggestion that he should look into biophysics in the future.