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.
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…
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…
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,…