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The Archives at NCBS is being set up as an institutional archive and also as a collecting archive for the history of contemporary biology in India.
Stories sometimes surface by bestowing significance on available material, willing them to become inflection points. The exhibit’s changing cover images – chipping off a wall that finds new life as a bird, Braille paper used for field biology notes, ceremonial garb for a phage genetics course – all illustrate that records take upon intriguing paths in the stories we find and share. 13 Ways is a pilot exhibit that celebrates these multiple interpretations...
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MK Nithila and Kailas Honasoge graduated in 2019 with Bachelor's degrees from St Josephs College, Bangalore. They were interns in the Archives in 2018.
Tracing the journey of the fruit fly from its entry into science to its current position as an important tool for genetics research. [Read More]
Overview of the Archives
The Archives at NCBS is a collecting archive for the history of contemporary biology in India.
The oldest archives entry
Collections
Objects
Genres of content
Volume of the Siddiqi papers, in cubic metres
Dec
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: Sundar Ganesan
Collective Memory and the Public Library
The role of a public library needs to be perceived just not for its content but also for the spirit in which it exists.....[Read More]
Jan
Tue
Archives Public Lecture Special Edition | The demands for a past and the (im)possibility of the archive
Janaki Nair + Launch of the Obaid Siddiqi Chair
...Opening the space for a dialogue on the archives, and indeed the possibility of ‘new universals’ in the 21st century....[Read More]
Feb
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: Ashwin J Mathew & Apar Gupta
This thing called the Internet: Infrastructure, governance and rights
This is the world...behind every WhatsApp forward, online classroom, remote conference, multi-player online game, and Internet shutdown...[Read More]
Mar
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: Sarita Sundar
Ornamented Elephants, the Lowly Pida, and the Turbaned Man: Ruminations from the margins of design
...Is freedom from ornament a sign of spiritual strength; is Modernism indeed in crisis? Was announcement of its death premature?...[Read More]
Apr
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: John Mathew
Archiving Grief
...In this personal reflection, John Mathew dwells upon the encountering of loss through death from three angles – the cell, the chorus, and the cemetery. Each perspective is its own archive, replete with deposited memories...[Read More]
May
Thu
Archives Public Lecture Series: Suchitra Vijayan
People make their own map: Citizenship and belonging in South Asia
...India is a land of borders, its peripheries nestling against seven countries. Over seven years, across 9,000 miles, Suchitra Vijayan travelled these borderlands....[Read More]
Jun
Thu
Archives Public Lecture Series: Larissa MacFarquhar
The extent of virtue: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
...Seeking out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment; their stubborn integrity, compromises, bravery, recklessness, joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas...[Read More]
Jul
Thu
Archives Public Lecture Series: Vijaya Nagarajan
Feeding a thousand souls: An exploration of the kōlam
...a deep exploration of the kōlam ritual, bringing in different knowledge traditions––beauty, history, gender, literature, religion, anthropology, mathematics, and ecology....[Read More]
Visit the Archives
The Archives at NCBS is located in the Eastern Labs Complex basement within the NCBS campus. Follow the signs from the NCBS reception. Or call us at +91-80-2366-6011.
Location
Archive at the National Centre for Biological Sciences
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
GKVK Campus, Bellary Road,
Bangalore – 560065. Karnataka. India
Visiting Hours
10:00 AM to 05:00 PM (Monday – Friday).
For questions, directions or more information, please write in to archives@ncbs.res.in or call at +91-80-2366-6011.
Groups and organized tours
Curious about how an archive gets built? We are happy to conduct tours for groups of up to 10-15 people. Please write in to archives@ncbs.res.in or call at +91-80-2366-6011.
