Reportage
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India’s Fusion Dance
Nandita reports from a recent visit to one of the largest big science experiments of the world: ITER. She writes about India’s participation in this project.
August 7th 2019
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The many-eyed eight-legged beauties of India’s rainforests
Spurred on by a Twitter challenge, this ecologist-educator lists her favourite and little-known spiders in the rainforests of India’s Western Ghats. Enjoy this photo-listicle!
July 3rd 2019
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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
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Excerpts from our first published study!
A study describing some findings about gender equality in Indian science from our labhopping journey
April 8th 2019
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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
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What Will It Take for Science in India to Have Its #MeToo Movement?
The rigid hierarchies that are fundamental to Indian scientific institutions must be dismantled to keep a check on sexual harassment that are hushed but commonplace.
November 5th 2018
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Whether Donna Strickland or Aditi Sen De, gender gap in science remains unchanged
This week, Donna Strickland became the first woman to win a Physics Nobel in 55 years. Closer home, last week Aditi Sen De became the first woman to win a Physics Bhatnagar ever. Two of the nine scientists who won a Nobel Prize this week are women. While the winners are being rightly celebrated for […]
October 12th 2018
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Profile of rocket scientist BP Dakshayani – where BBC went wrong
A quick summary of an interesting ‘twiscussion’ about a recent BBC article profiling Indian rocket scientist, BP Dakshayani.
September 5th 2018
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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
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Five books on women in science to read in 2018
Five books written on women in science to include in your reading list for 2018.
January 7th 2018