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KS Vishalakshi, early NCBS hire for administration: Reflections on starting at the TIFR Centre as a daily wage worker and typing up 100s of theses for students.

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K VijayRaghavan, faculty member at NCBS: The path to TIFR after a chance reading of an Obaid Siddiqi paper while recuperating from tuberculosis in Delhi

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Sudhir Krishna, faculty member at NCBS: An early introduction to TIFR as a summer student.

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Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: Growing up in Shantiniketan, a switch from physics to biology, and an early encounter with Obaid Siddiqi.

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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.

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Shaju Varghese, hospitality/security/canteen supervisor: Reflections on a childhood in Kerala, and the connections with his work today.

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TM Sahadevan, long-time administrative architect at NCBS: An early career move from Coonoor to Bangalore, and being the first person from TIFR, Bombay, to land at the TIFR Centre, IISc in the mid 1970s.

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PP Ranjith, early hire as lab manager at NCBS: A degree in mathematics, and the circumstances behind a move from Kerala in search of a job.

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UB Poornima, chief architect at NCBS: Early career circumstances and choosing architecture as a career.

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Mitradas Panicker, faculty member at NCBS: An early introduction to TIFR as a summer student in PK Maitra's lab

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Mukund Thattai, a 'Young Investigator' NCBS hire and current faculty member: Early childhood, a short history extract and a unique engineering project.

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MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: Reflections on early education and figuring out what direction to take his life in.

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Kaleem Siddiqi, faculty member at McGill University: Memories of a childhood in the 1970s when he and his sister used the TIFR molecular biology unit conference room as a personal study space since it was sparsely used.

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Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: Reflections from early childhood, family history and a personal and serious interest in cricket.

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Jeevaraju, staff member in the lab kitchen: The move to NCBS in 1992, the reasons for staying and his memories of the early days at the TIFR Centre.

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G Gajendra, staff member at the Fly Facility: Moving to Bangalore from Kolar district to teach, and then entering NCBS as a security guard before shifting back to science.

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T Eswar, head cook, canteen services: Joining the TIFR Centre canteen as an assistant cook and the eventual move to NCBS.

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SN Basha, staff member of the NCBS security services: Moving from Bijapur to Bangalore after the Emergency in search of a job, and eventually leading up to NCBS in the late 1990s.

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Ashok Rao, administrative officer: Moving around the country with a parent who worked as a mining engineer for the DAE, and then joining the DAE family himself.

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Anand Kumar, NCBS staff member and supervisor at the reception: Joining NCBS in the late 1990s after working at a Coca Cola factory nearby.

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Rudra Naik, caretaker at the NCBS guesthouse: Memories of building a relationship with students and faculty at the old cafeteria in the early 2000s.

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