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Physicist Rohini Godbole. She predicted the Drees-Godbole Effect for particle colliders while compelling male scientists to count the missing women in their midst.

Rohini Godbole (1952-2024): The physicist who refused to choose between science and justice

She died as she lived—pursuing both particle physics and gender justice with equal passion at the Indian Institute of Science.
Nandita Jayaraj
Mathematician Efim Zelmanov

Why is a Fields medalist teaching math in war-torn Ukraine?

Efim Zelmanov’s foray into wartime education challenges the notion that scientists should stick to their formulas. Are Indian scientists listening?
Nandita Jayaraj
Bose lecturing on the “nervous system” of plants at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1926.

Demystifying J.C. Bose

Sudipto Das explores the rise and fall of the “founder of modern science” in India.
Nandita Jayaraj
Excavating a 50,000-year-old elephant fossil at Gallander village in Pampore near Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir in September 2000. The lack of a repository is why India loses large numbers of ancient fossils every time a field site is destroyed and every time a palaeontologist retires.

Why India needs a museum for its fossils

We are losing invaluable palaeontological history because we have neither a legal framework nor the awareness to protect fossils.
Nandita Jayaraj
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