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The Archives at NCBS is a public collecting centre for the history of science in contemporary 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 public collecting centre for the history of science in contemporary India.
The oldest archives entry
Collections
Objects
Genres of content
Volume of the Siddiqi papers, in cubic metres
Aug
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: Neeraja Sankaran
Historical adventures in virus hunting
..I will be focusing on the rather paradoxical role played by the research on two particular viruses....[Read More]
Sep
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: Ramachandra Guha
Forty Years an Archive Rat in Five Continents
..Guha will speak of different kinds of primary sources; government documents, personal letters, diaries, court records, fugitive newspaper reports....[Read More]
Oct
Tue
Archival Papers Launch
Launch of the MS Swaminathan Papers
..This new collection captures the life and work of MS Swaminathan, the plant geneticist, agricultural scientist, humanist, and scientific administrator. It contains over 48,000 archival objects spanning 80 years,....[Read More]
Dec
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: Chitranshul Sinha
Coming Apart: A Brief History of Dissent and Sedition
..The talk will discuss this colonial history of one of India’s most controversial laws....[Read More]
Dec
Fri
Archives - BangaloREsidency Artist-in-Residence Programme: Line Krom
Dust and Debris in the Archives
..Line Krom is an artist who stirs up dust. For two months, she has been an artist-in-residence at the Archives at NCBS....[Read More]
Jan
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: Sevanti Ninan
Paradox of the Media: Plentiful yet Unviable, Plentiful yet Unfree
..I explore how and why the media industry expanded and grew in the decade of the 1990s...[Read More]
Feb
Thu
Archives Public Lecture Series: Kurush Dalal
Why do we eat what we eat? The Archaeology, Anthropology, History and Politics of Food
..The study of food is thus the study of human beings, human history, human culture and humanity itself...[Read More]
Mar
Wed
Archival Papers Launch
Launch of the TSG Sastry Papers
..This new collection captures the life and work of Indian physicist, TSG Sastry, who is most noted for his contribution towards establishing India’s first rocket launch station in Thumba....[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
