From navigating gendered spaces in academia to shaping global standards on heritage stones, a geologist charts a meteoric rise along a rocky path.
Inside an Indian scientist’s career
Karishma Kaushik’s career trajectory explains why science in India is shaped as much by structure as ambition.
The chemist fighting India’s invisible pollutants
How Prerna Sonthalia Goradia is building molecular filtration systems that target the toxic air and water contaminants that are not always visible.
Saving India’s vanishing wetlands, one marsh at a time
Jayshree Vencatesan’s fieldcraft, people skills and persistence have protected ecosystems which were written off as wastelands.
सभी का आनुवंशिक कल्याण सुनिश्चित करना प्रोफेसर थेल्मा के शोध का मुख्य उद्देश्य है।
प्रसिद्ध आनुवंशिकी और जीनोमिक्स विशेषज्ञ प्रोफेसर बी.के. थेल्मा के कार्य को संचालित करने वाला व्यापक दृष्टिकोण पूर्वानुमानित, रोकथामात्मक, व्यक्तिगत और सहभागितापूर्ण चिकित्सा का मॉडल है।
From Kathmandu’s streets to elephant science: The journey of Dr Sanjeeta Pokharel
How Sanjeeta Pokharel carved a career in elephant science against the odds and why their survival drives her work.
Empathetic ears on the ground: What it takes to do ethical research
Two scholars explain how fieldwork is not just about collecting data but about listening, representing, and giving back.
Soothing hands behind SNEHA’s suicide prevention mission
Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar’s NGO offers timely psychological support, campaigns to decriminalise suicides and implements pesticide locker rooms to restrict farmer suicides.
सूरज के पीछे-पीछे: कैसे एक टेढ़े-मेढ़े सफर ने उन्हें आदित्य-L1 तक पहुंचाया
भारत के पहले सौर अवलोकन मिशन ‘आदित्य-L1’ पर सनस्पॉट तरंगों का अध्ययन करने वाली टीम की संयुक्त मुख्य अन्वेषक, खगोलभौतिकीविद् ऐशान्या शर्मा अब ऐसे डेटा को समझेंगी, जो अंतरिक्ष मौसम पूर्वानुमान, उपग्रहों व संचार प्रणालियों की सुरक्षा और सूर्य के चुंबकीय व्यवहार को समझने में अहम भूमिका निभाएगा।
They belong in the lab, not the kitchen: Meet the food scientists fighting India’s nutrition crisis
Fighting the stubborn stereotype of being called home cooks, these women are now recognised food scientists on a mission to combat hunger and food insecurity.