The Life of Science

Indumathi is a particle physicist at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai. She works on mysterious sub-atomic particles called neutrinos. Indu is pushing for an underground neutrino observatory - a project that has been dogged by...

A conversation with one of the very few women leaders at Benaras Hindu University who is an award-winning biotechnologist. Kavita has had a long journey at BHU starting with her PhD and then returning to set up a laboratory from scratch at one of the...

Anu Sabhlok is a social scientist, architect and feminist scholar at IISER Mohali. She has been relooking the definition of "nation" with the help of migrant labourers who build India"s border roads every year. For many years she has been travelling...

Smitha Hegde is one of the country's topmost experts on one of the earliest land plants to appear on Earth - ferns. Based in Mangaluru, the pteridologist studies the evolution of ferns in the Western Ghats. In this episode, she talks about a problem...

Vidita Vaidya is a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award-winning neuroscientist at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. In this episode, she talks about the brain circuits that affect our emotions and stress, especially during childhood. She...

The Life of Science is a travelling feminist science media project run by Aashima Dogra and Nandita Jayaraj which tells the story of women scientists around India. They have interviewed almost a hundred women scientists so far and won a Laadli Media...