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Connecting with other institutions - K VijayRaghavan

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On competition within a campus - Jayant Udgaonkar

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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…

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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…

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Jayant Udgaonkar, faculty member at NCBS: On why he resigned as dean, and his concern about the "ad-hoc" measures implemented across campus

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UB Poornima, chief architect at NCBS: Reflecting on changes in staff attitudes as an institution grows.

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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.

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Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: Reflections on owernship of institutional facilities as a Centre grows.

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Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: Cautionary thoughts on the risk of scaling up an institute's size.

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Sudhir Krishna, a senior faculty member at NCBS, and his wall of alumni from his lab over the last two decades.

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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,…

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