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  • 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

  • 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

  • The norm of funding delays in Indian science

    A multimedia report featuring real experiences of funding delays faced by India’s scientists. Delays are the norm, and they have devastating effects on science, not to mention scientists themselves.

    January 15th 2022

  • Sexual Harassment in Indian Science

    A panel discussion on sexual harassment in STEM in India brought forward difficult-to-digest realities and valuable perspectives from institutional leaders, researchers, students, activists and lawyers.

    December 31st 2021

  • Do you trust in science? – A Zine

    A zine that asks us to evaluate our relationship with science and scientific discoveries.

    December 2nd 2021