‘You Name a Game, I Know It’

Growing up in Coorg, Karnataka, CP Poonacha was always engaged in sports and outdoor activities. He enjoyed them so much that he decided to make it his career. After completing a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Physical Education, he started his career at Karnataka University and later worked at Jyoti Nivas College, Bengaluru. He joined IISc […]

On Accounts and Arts

Indumati Srinivasan has spent over three decades navigating some of India’s most complex public institutions – from the vast system of the Indian Railways to the research-driven environment of the Indian Institute of Science. Trained as an economist and shaped by years in the Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS), she brought rigour and quiet resolve […]

Bridging Worlds

Suhas Mahesh is a man of many talents. He is a material physicist working on building self-driving labs using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accelerate materials discovery. A Rhodes Scholar currently working with Schmidt Sciences in New York, he also nurses a love for languages, particularly ancient ones like Sanskrit and Prakrit. He has published a […]

Behind the Screens

A day at DIGITS   If IISc were a living organism, with the Main Building as its brain, then the DIGITS office (Digital Campus and Information Technology Services) would be its spine: positioned just behind the “brain”, tasked with carrying signals and coordinating responses across campus and beyond. The office building stands at the intersection […]

Fantastic Fables

Spooky stories of campus past   IISc is equal parts a university and an epic, covering several epochs in its century of existence. Stacks of dusty files overflow with correspondence and documents, digital folders burst with names and passwords, and fossilised records lie silently in the farthest corners of the library. Yet, there is more. […]

Connecting…

Socialising in the digital age   Imagine sitting at Sarvam, basking in the bliss of a good hair day. The weather is pleasant, the sun is timid and a cool breeze is playing its part – the quintessential hyper-marketed Bengaluru weather. Around you, everyone chats happily. There is a reassuring calm within the chaos. A […]