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Factoring politics into institutions - Imrana Qadeer

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Obaid Siddiqi at his residence in Bangalore, 2008.

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KS Krishnan (left) and Veronica Rodrigues (right), two long-time faculty members at TIFR and NCBS, sitting in the NCBS cafeteria.

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KS Krishnan and Veronica Rodrigues. Unknown date.

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KS Krishnan peering down a microscope, in his later years at TIFR

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In this obituary for KS Krishnan, who passed away in 2014, his former students elegantly describe his research techniques and his ability to improvise and innovate.

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Guido Pontecorvo, Obaid Siddiqi's mentor and PhD advisor at the University of Glasgow. After Pontecorvo's demise, Siddiqi would write a detailed obituary in the Royal Society proceedings.

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PhD thesis of Obaid Siddiqi. April 1961

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A 1985 letter from Veronica Rodrigues to Champakali Ayyub, where Rodrigues addresses Obaid Siddiqi as guruji. It was common for the students to address Siddiqi in that manner, though it changed in later years.

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Letter from Guido Pontecorvo to Obaid Siddiqi congratulating him on being in the short list to be a Fellow of The Royal Society in 1984. He also congratulates the Society "for their wisdom".

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Letter from Robin Holliday to Obaid Siddiqi congratulating him on his nomination to be a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984. Holliday opines that the award "would do good" for Siddiqi's group.

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Letter from Robin Holliday to Obaid Siddiqi congratulating him on his nomination to be a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984. Holliday opines that the award "would do good" for Siddiqi's group.

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A joint obituary for PK Maitra and Zita Lobo, published in Yeast journal in 2008. Maitra joined TIFR's molecular biology unit as a young faculty member in 1963 and would go on to mentor many generations of students. Lobo joined as a research…

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A joint obituary for PK Maitra and Zita Lobo, published in Yeast journal in 2008. Maitra joined TIFR's molecular biology unit as a young faculty member in 1963 and would go on to mentor many generations of students. Lobo joined as a research…

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PK Maitra's offer letter to join TIFR as the second faculty member of the molecular biology unit after Obaid Siddiqi. 1963.

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The academic notice board at TIFR's molecular biology unit, 2016.

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Veronica Rodrigues' email to Champakali Ayyub in 1993. Rodrigues stresses the need to publish, saying that "It is good discipline to complete a job and let the world see it completed."

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Veronica Rodrigues' note in response to gender biases at TIFR, where she admonishes the Institute on their habit of addressing women by their marital status in official correspondence. Of particular interest is also the handwritten institutional…

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Shobha Jagtap, administrative assistant in TIFR: Memories of working with Veronica Rodrigues

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Sanjay Sane, faculty member and former student at NCBS: Entering TIFR as a student and early interactions with Veronica Rodrigues.

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Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: Being mentored by Riayat Khan while at Aligarh Muslim University in the 1950s, and being firmly situated in a research career.

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Maithreyi Narasimha, faculty member at TIFR: On the influence of Veronica Rodrigues when she joined as a young faculty at TIFR.

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Deepti Trivedi, technology scientist at NCBS: On Obaid Siddiqi's hesitation in publishing a lot of material and his focus, instead, on the quality of the research shared with the world.

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