In the main academic block at TIFR, near the Director's office, is a room called the Penthouse. It used to be the telephone exchange. Today, it is the records room. Records are preserved, but it takes institutional memory to track them down,…
Food services at NCBS started with a single stove in the mid 1990s. Today, NCBS has about half a dozen food outlets on campus, with the main canteen having a roster of over 500 dishes. Good food is one of the reasons students have cited for coming to…
Responding to a request by the Dean of the Physics Faculty (Molecular Biology was in the Physics faculty), Obaid Siddiqi states a need for 10 lakhs to pursue the group's plans to intensify research in neurobiology. The note is written soon after his…
TM Sahadevan, long-time administrative architect at NCBS: On the concerns of the institute as it grows and a need to cut across red tape while following structure.