Reportage


  • 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

  • Seven years later: The IITs’ supernumerary scheme

    A recap of the much-acclaimed supernumerary seats scheme which was introduced in the IITs to boost gender ratios, and an examination of its impact.

    March 12th 2025

  • Accidental IITian: The tempered radicalism of Ravinder Kaur

    An IIT Delhi-based sociologist shares her evolving views of science and technology, and traces her attempts to study and bring change in her own institute.

    March 4th 2025

  • Retiring the idle ‘women in science’ narratives

    The term ‘women in science’ has been mentioned so often in recent years that it has become a buzzword—something people feel obligated to brush past while discussing science and technology, but one that often feels rather empty.

    October 15th 2024

  • Four steps to diverse science conferences

    Any meeting focused on Nobel laureates is bound to suffer representation issues, however the organisers of the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting manage to set some positive examples. Perhaps their contemporaries in India could take some leaves out of their book.

    October 5th 2024

  • Many Eyes on the Solar Storm

    A conversation with solar astronomer Piyali Chatterjee reveals that there’s a lot more to the ongoing geomagnetic storm than the mesmerising aurorae in the sky.

    May 13th 2024