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Infographic: Collecting and testing Indian health indicators on a large scale
What are India’s health indicators? This infographic shows how scientists are answering this question.
March 17th 2020
Good teachers need to go way beyond textbooks
Looking back at EpiSTEME, a conference on science education, held at TIFR-HBCSE in January 2020.
March 9th 2020
A New Kind of Quantum Information Conference Is Coming to Chennai
In 2018, a quantum information workshop in Brazil came closer than most to the ideal of a truly diverse scientific conference. The team behind it is trying to recreate the same experience in Chennai.
December 21st 2019
Physicists meet to talk gender equity (and some physics)
At the first of its kind scientific conference, Indian physicists start to agree that something must be done about the gender gap
October 1st 2019
The hunt for superflares from the Sun
For years, astronomers wondered whether the Sun is a special star – a star sans superflares. All that changed earlier this year, thanks to a meteorite called Efremovka and some neat detective work from a group of scientists including Kuljeet Kaur Marhas from PRL, Ahmedabad.
June 18th 2019
Snippets from Spoorthi—Celebrating Indian Women in Science
Spoorthi is a resource for women in science in India and includes a diversity of voices of women.
March 6th 2019
Government’s push for more women engineers kicks off in IIT Jodhpur
Priyanka Singh shares her experience of organising the ‘Vigyan Jyoti’ summer camp for girl students at IIT-J
June 22nd 2018
Infosys Prizes Announced for Three Women – but That Is Not Enough
All 4 of the science prizes went to existing Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awardees and the all-male jury chair could not acknowledge that the prize was purposefully attempting to be gender equal
November 21st 2017
Finally a daycare center at IIT Delhi
President of IIT Delhi Day Care Management Committee shares what went into starting the facility on campus whose time had come
October 10th 2017
BHU woman scientist on the protests and demands
Why did police lathi charge the women students of BHU on Saturday night and was it really a lone incident of sexual assault on campus that has triggered this rage? A PhD student at the university campus reports on the prevalent state-of-mind among her community in Banaras Hindu University.
September 25th 2017