Voices
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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
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Reimagining science needed now more than ever
As we grapple with ethics in the AI age, science education can offer us liberation and emancipation, says educationist Vetti Giri.
August 14th 2025
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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
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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
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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
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Navigating STEM with Bittu K. Rajaraman: A journey of inclusion and inquiry
A genderqueer biologist’s motivations, experiences, and insights into the challenges and triumphs of being a queer and trans scientist in India.
November 1st 2024
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Universal Lessons from the Life of Joan Birman
What do an Iranian geometer and an algebraist from New Zealand have in common apart from being Fields Medallists? Their research is linked to Joan Birman, an American mathematician who turned 97 last week.
June 8th 2024
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Some thoughts on the pain gap
A woman’s experience with pain and recovery, panic and anger, guilt and love.
June 29th 2022
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Fire burning bright: Aparna’s and Amrita’s work in public health
Amrita Sarkar and Aparna Banerjee set out to demand for transgender-affirmative public-health system in India, and in the process, discovered themselves.
January 14th 2022
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“I regret the years spent in academia”: a Bahujan scientist tells his story
News about Deepa Mohanan and Kripashankar Gautam prompted a journalist to revisit her decade-old interview with an IIT research scholar negotiating casteism on campus. Why has nothing changed since then, and what is the way forward?
December 10th 2021