Venkat Srinivasan
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materials science / writing / oral histories
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Never thought I'd author 3 books when I became a writer. It's Pub Day for Through Two Doors at Once. Please share/re-tweet--it's much appreciated. Available at local indie booksellers and at amazon.com/Through-Two-Do… Dutton Books Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 Penguin Random House Emily Canders
Here’s a timely follow up to the #decolonizetheInternet conference, @[email protected] on Mastodon ! chronicle.com/article/Archiv…
“The act of telling the truth is an act of freedom, but it’s also an act of great risk.” Marginalized communities face huge challenges in sharing their knowledge online - including the threat of hostility and violence both online and offline. #DecolonizetheInternet #Wikimania2018
Counting down to our Decolonizing the Internet conference in Cape Town July 18! We’re putting our heads together w/ 100 incredible change makers - 55% are women, 60% are from the global South, 60% are people of color. Find out more! whoseknowledge.org/decolonizing-t… #DecolonizeTheInternet
#Bangalore - head to National Centre for Biological Sciences tomorrow after the #KarnatakaElections2018 result to hear #IndiraChowdhury on why postcolonial archive must be different from colonial archive at 4pm. #archives #History
Major kudos to Usha Ramanathan, Shyam Divan, Gopal Subramanian, Arvind Datar, Meenakshi Arora & the strong legal team, for challenging this at the highest bar, the right to life. Gautam Bhatia Prasanna S sflc.in for opening up justice & those who trended what needed trending. twitter.com/gautambhatia88…
What if you could host a popular science talk in your own apartment block!
We have great public talks at National Centre for Biological Sciences, but it's often hard for people across the city to get here. That's why we started Science and the City.
Sign up here to host a talk: ncbs.res.in/HistoryScience…
Everything is terrible but my cousin’s 9-year old daughter Alice has been quietly and masterfully slaying the The New Yorker’s caption contest and it’s pure delight.
#mitgrandchallenges keynote livestream on digital access, curation & preservation by Anasuya Sengupta of @[email protected] on Mastodon starts now. Tune in! grandchallenges.mit.edu/#livestream
BLOCK YOUR CALENDAR for 2pm Tuesday 20th March, when the NCBS Archives present the first of a monthly talk series. Tomorrow we revisit the history of Bangalore’s lakes with Seema Mundoli of Azim Premji University.
Don’t miss it!
Back from a two year reporting break. For Undark Magazine and David Corcoran I write about the team tying together the pieces of the Parkinson’s puzzle: undark.org/article/decodi…
#Bangalore ’s #WaterCrisis looms large and it is critical to understand the history of #water in this landlocked city in order to better prepare for the future.
NCBS Archives present 'Tracing Bengaluru’s Water History' - a public lecture by Seema Mundoli. 20 March, 2018 | 2pm
Are you an undergrad student interested in using math and physics to figure out biology? Find out how at the 6th Annual Simons-NCBS #MonsoonSchool !
We want participants from across disciplines: phys, chem, math, engg, bio. Apply online at Living Machines-NCBS: theory.ncbs.res.in/physlife2018