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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
Mar
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: Sundar Sarukkai
Body As/Of An Archive: Matter, Memory and Absence
..link between matter, memory and absence through this relation between the body of an archive and the body itself as an archive..[Read More]
Mar
Fri
Archives Exhibition Launch
Bodies At Sea
..curated and designed by Devika Sundar and Kamini Rao ..[Read More]
Apr
Wed
Archives Public Lecture Series: Urvashi Butalia
Feminism, the Breath in the Body, the Fire in the Soul
..I reflect on a life lived in feminism and feminist activism and ask: what does it mean to be a feminist?..[Read More]
May
Sun
Obaid Siddiqi Lectures: MD Madhusudan
Pushing boundaries: Science and Politics of Mapping Nature
..I look at examples of how forests, 'wastelands' and protected areas have been mapped, to examine and illustrate the essentially political nature of mapping..[Read More]
May
Fri
What are we doing here? #1
Campus Rituals & Blue Moons
..Our first session will focus on rituals and routine practices that characterize campus life, along with rare events that this campus has seen over the years...[Read More]
Jun
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: Shabnam Virmani
Like a Furious Storm
..The ideas of the radical mystic poet Kabir continue to be expressed and practiced through folk songs..[Read More]
Jun
Fri
Obaid Siddiqi Lectures:
ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ವನ್ಯಜೀವಿ ಸಂರಕ್ಷಣೆ: ನಡೆದು ಬಂದ ಹಾದಿ
..Lecture in Kannada on Wildlife conservation in India: a fifty year retrospective..[Read More]
Jun
Thu
What are we doing here? #2
Binary and Beyond
..Our second session will focus on experiences of gender in different spaces of science, from labs to facilities to canteens in institutes....[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 visit https://archives.ncbs.res.in/contact
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 visit https://archives.ncbs.res.in/contact
