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Ajith Kumar, NCBS faculty member and co-ordinator of MSc programme in Wildlife Biology: On career paths for MSc Wildlife students after they graduate, and the program's focus on training students to go beyond the academic trajectory.
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Debakshi Mullick, current PhD student at NCBS: On the conversations in 2015 around a pay hike for students and the lack of involvement of the broader NCBS community.
taslim_2002-gujarat-lab-talk_INTERSECTION-SOCIETY
Taslimarif Saiyed, former NCBS student and current director, C-CAMP: On a conversation with Obaid Siddiqi after the 2002 Gujarat riots.
rudra_cafeteria-familiarity_PEOPLE-ORIGIN_INTERSECTION-STAFF.mp3
Rudra Naik, caretaker at the NCBS guesthouse: Memories of building a relationship with students and faculty at the old cafeteria in the early 2000s.
anand_reception-start_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
Anand Kumar, NCBS staff member and supervisor at the reception: Joining NCBS in the late 1990s after working at a Coca Cola factory nearby.
ashok_mine-bihar-dae-blr-all-job_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
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.
basha_NGEF-bijapur-NCBS_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
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.
eswar_cook-event_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
T Eswar, head cook, canteen services: Joining the TIFR Centre canteen as an assistant cook and the eventual move to NCBS.
gajendra_flyfacility_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
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.
jeevaraju_work-detail_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
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.
jitu_membrane-cricket_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: Reflections from early childhood, family history and a personal and serious interest in cricket.
kaleem_TIFR-brat-conference-room-study_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
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.
Mathew_IIT-IISc_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: Reflections on early education and figuring out what direction to take his life in.
Mukund_Father-factory_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
Mukund Thattai, a 'Young Investigator' NCBS hire and current faculty member: Early childhood, a short history extract and a unique engineering project.
panic_TIFR-summer_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
Mitradas Panicker, faculty member at NCBS: An early introduction to TIFR as a summer student in PK Maitra's lab
poornima_emergency-home-sci_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
UB Poornima, chief architect at NCBS: Early career circumstances and choosing architecture as a career.
ranjith_kerala-maths_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
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.
sahadevan_TIFR-1972_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
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.
shaju_childhood-labor-catering_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
Shaju Varghese, hospitality/security/canteen supervisor: Reflections on a childhood in Kerala, and the connections with his work today.
shantha_hiring-walk-IISc_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
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.
shona_shantiniketan-obaid_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: Growing up in Shantiniketan, a switch from physics to biology, and an early encounter with Obaid Siddiqi.
Sudhir_TIFR-summer-student_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
Sudhir Krishna, faculty member at NCBS: An early introduction to TIFR as a summer student.
vijay_AIIMS-TB-OS-paper-1975_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
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
vishalakshi_sci-typing_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
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.
deepti_labtour-coasters_SPACE-TOUR.mp3
Obaid Siddiqi’s lab meetings. Deepti Trivedi finds objects that she remembers from her lab meetings between 1999-2003.
deepti_labtour-electrode-heat_SPACE-TOUR.mp3
Electrode puller probably obtained from TIFR when Obaid Siddidi arrived at NCBS. It was never used and used to be in a room with other old equipment. Deepti Trivedi, a former student, was really surprised to see it outside and wonder if it was used…
deepti_labtour-flood_SPACE-TOUR.mp3
A flood in 1999 in Obaid Siddiqi’s lab led to water above the ankles, and damaging a lot of previous material. Deepti Trivedi, a former student, recounts the event.
deepti_labtour-fly-maze-glass_SPACE-TOUR.mp3
T-traps were used for odour preference assays for Drosophila. One of the arms of the T-trap has an odorant while the other one is a control. Flies are let in from the third arm and allowed to roam around. The flies that are attracted by the specific…
deepti_labtour-graph-sequence-spit_RESEARCH-PROCESS.mp3
Obaid Siddiqi avoided computer-generated graphs as far as possible and expected his students to do the same. He would force them to draw curves by hand to get a feel of the trend in a particular experiment. The philosophy of verifying your own data…
deepti_labtour-patch-clamp-wires_SPACE-TOUR.mp3
Deepti Trivedi's remarks upon seeing her handwriting and Obaid Siddiqi's handwriting in the lab, more than a decade after she passed through the lab. "During the time we were trying to find different ion channels that are present in Drosophila…
deepti_labtour-prabhakar_INTERSECTION-STAFF.mp3
Deepti Trivedi shares her memories of discussions between Obaid Siddiqi and Sunil Prabhakar, who joined Siddiqi's lab as an assistant, offering technical assistance for fly behavior experiments, stock keeping and management of laboratory consumables.…
deepti_labtour-reprints_SPACE-TOUR.mp3
Back in the day when it wasn't easy to just print copies of journal articles off the web, reprints carried a lot of currency. Obaid Siddiqi continued to maintain a pile of reprints in his office and an even bigger set in his lab, in alphabetical…
deepti_labtour-trainee_SPACE-TOUR.mp3
Soon after he moved to NCBS, Obaid Siddiqi started getting interested in hiring students at the BSc and MSc level in his lab. Students from the time would discuss the disproportionate size of his lab, compared to other labs. The trainees would stay…
deepti_labtour-windT_SPACE-TOUR.mp3
The aim of the wind-tunnel apparatus was to generate streamlined flow of known specific velocities and then possibly measure the behavior of the fly in the wind tunnel. Deepti Trivedi shares her memory of the device and the people who worked on it.
1944 Apr D-2004-00019-63(1-4) HB to Sorab handwritten.pdf
Homi Bhabha's hand witten draft of a letter to Sorab Tata in April 1944. Bhabha informs him that the Dorabji Tata Trust had agreed to sponsor his scheme of setting up an institute for advanced research in physics.
1944 Apr D-2004-00019-63(1-4) HB to Sorab handwritten.pdf
Homi Bhabha's hand witten draft of a letter to Sorab Tata in April 1944. Bhabha informs him that the Dorabji Tata Trust had agreed to sponsor his scheme of setting up an institute for advanced research in physics.
1944 Apr D-2004-00019-63(1-4) HB to Sorab handwritten.pdf
Homi Bhabha's hand witten draft of a letter to Sorab Tata in April 1944. Bhabha informs him that the Dorabji Tata Trust had agreed to sponsor his scheme of setting up an institute for advanced research in physics.
1944 Apr D-2004-00019-63(1-4) HB to Sorab handwritten.pdf
Homi Bhabha's hand written draft of a letter to Sorab Tata in April 1944. Bhabha informs him that the Dorabji Tata Trust had agreed to sponsor his scheme of setting up an institute for advanced research in physics.
1944 HB to Dorab Tata - TIFR proposal letter 3.jpg
Copy of Homi Bhabha's letter to Dorab Tata on March 12, 1944. Bhabha mentions that institute of advanced research in physics will have parallels with the Kaiser Wilhelm (later Max Planck) institutes in Germany, which are built around outstanding…
1944 HB to Dorab Tata - TIFR proposal letter.jpg
Copy of Homi Bhabha's letter to Dorab Tata on March 12, 1944. Bhabha raises the possibility of setting up a new institute of advanced research in physics in Bombay.
1944 Jun D-2004-00019-64(1 of 1) HB to Sorab advanced instt.pdf
Homi Bhabha suggesting in a letter to Rustom Choksi in June 1944 that the word 'fundamental' should be replaced by 'advanced' in the title of the institute's name.
1945 HB speech at TIFR inaug_1.pdf
Homi Bhabha makes the case for fundamental research at the inauguration of TIFR in 1945
1962 HB to OS - TIFR Offer First Correspondence.tif
The first direct correspondence between Homi Bhabha and Obaid Siddiqi, after Bhabha received a letter from Leo Szilard, with recommendations for Siddiqi from Alan Garen and Guido Pontecorvo. March 12, 1962.
1971 JRD Tata speech - TIFR 25th anniversary_1.pdf
An extract from JRD Tata's speech at the 25th anniversary of TIFR
1972 Nov 28 D-2004-01230-107(1 - 2) MR Das to MGK Virus work letter.pdf
M R Das, a faculty member at TIFR in the 1970s, highlighting the media and academic attention to his virology work to MGK Menon
1972 Nov 28 D-2004-01230-107(1 - 2) MR Das to MGK Virus work letter.pdf
M R Das, a faculty member at TIFR in the 1970s, highlighting the media and academic attention to his virology work to MGK Menon
1975 Nov 28 D-2004-01232 (10- 1-1) BARC to Sreekantan - MR Das reco.tif
1975 letter from the director of the biomedical group at BARC to BV Sreekantan, then director of TIFR, recommending the virology work of MR Das at the time.
1978 Poster_Mahabaleshwar_Lecture.jpg
The Mahabaleshwar Seminars in Modern Biology were started after an informal discussion between Obaid Siddiqi and John Barnabas in 1974. In 1975, the first seminar titled ‘Genetics and Evolution’ was held in a chapel at the Green Hill Campus at…
1980s TIFR MBU - Lab Space - Delegation Visit.tif
A German delegation visiting the molecular biology unit of TIFR in the late 1980s. Seen in the photo are Obaid Siddiqi (left) and K VijayRaghavan (third from left). International collaborations would become vital for the group to connect with the…