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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
Jun
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: Jasmeen Patheja and the Blank Noise Team
Beyond Defence: The Right To Imagine. I Never Ask For It
Sexual violence across spaces, geographies, identities and time has been justified through the systemic use of blame...[Read More]
Jul
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: Alok Sarin and Sanjeev Jain
Of Mind and Matter: Partition and the Strains of Migration
The Partition of India was a partitioning of minds as much as it was a geographical division...[Read More]
Aug
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: Aparna Vaidik and Danish Husain
My Son’s Inheritance: The Silence in Violence
Aparna Vaidik explores lynching and the larger culture of violence that permeates the social and political fabric of the country....[Read More]
Sep
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: TM Krishna
The Voice in Music
Does one only hear music? Is there something called experiencing it, feeling its sheer force? Finding one's voice is a historical, social and philosophical seeking....[Read More]
Oct
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: Arvind Narrain, T Jayashree & Rahul Rao
Remembering Queer Lives: Silence, memory and building a collective history
This presentation will engage with instances of the deep silence around LGBT lives or to give a fleeting moment the dignity of history and remembrance....[Read More]
Nov
Fri
Archives Public Lecture Series: Maya Dodd and Rochelle Pinto
Who's Afraid of an Emergency?
Maya Dodd and Rochelle Pinto will highlight the question of public access, through the example of archival access to the Emergency papers....[Read More]
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]
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.
