Reportage


  • 5 Steps to Unlock Indian Science’s Full Potential

    The student demands we are witnessing across the country plead for constructive steps to get us out of the rut. In the case of science education and research, we can start by collating the small, sporadic, and progressive campaigns from the science community.

    September 3rd 2026

  • Deepak Dhar’s Dirac Medal will bring physics into small-town dreams

    Theoretical physicist Sarika Jalan reflects on Deepak Dhar’s Dirac Medal, the importance of his work and what it means to her.

    August 20th 2026

  • Whose science festival is it anyway?

    Seven eventful years since its first edition, the India Science Festival serves as a great case study to examine and advocate for science communicators’ participation in such events.

    July 3rd 2026

  • Ladies only: Learning science in a woman’s world

    A survey of nearly 80 individuals who studied science at women’s colleges in India from the 1960s to the 2020s reveals mixed experiences and a need for reform.

    June 26th 2026

  • Falling Dominoes: India’s embarrassment of complexity and a way out

    India has a growing complexity science community with tools to make sense of the interacting networks we now live within

    June 20th 2026

  • 2026 Labhopping Calendar is here

    The special edition calendar embraces uncertainty as it expresses our difficult yet undying love for science. Support the project by buying one now!

    December 19th 2025

  • Recording sex and gender data in clinical settings

    While human sex is a combination of many attributes, it typically refers to sex-assigned-at-birth in clinical settings. But, genitals are neither the only markers of sex nor does sex development begin — or stop — at the birth of an individual.

    October 24th 2025

  • Postcolonial theory has a Hindutva problem

    Ideas meant to challenge colonial power are now being used to justify myth and religion in India, with real costs to science and secularism.

    July 30th 2025

  • Vilayati kikar: The making of a supervillain

    Encounters with an ‘invasive’ tree prompted an urban ecologist to reflect on the labels of “foreign” and “alien”, and her experiences as a descendant of refugees and a migrant in a new city.

    June 5th 2025

  • Two campuses within one

    A glimpse into how space, layout and infrastructure in an engineering institute produces different experiences for its male and female students

    March 20th 2025