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Tag: CFTRI

28SEP

How IISc Provided Soya Milk to Thousands of Schoolchildren

From 1945 to 1948, a programme at the Department of Biochemistry provided soya milk as a nutritional supplement   The Second World War ended with acute scarcity of food and milk in many parts of India. A year before the war ended, in September 1944, IISc created a new post for a Lecturer in Food […]

Posted in: HistoryTagged: CFTRI, Department of Biochemistry, IISc, soya milk, SS De, V Subrahmanyan
16SEP

My Grandfather, V Subrahmanyan, at IISc

Posted in: HistoryTagged: biochemistry, CFTRI, food technology, V Subrahmanyan
29JUN

Why are Archives Important?

A peek into the IISc Archives and the world of archiving   Among the IISc Archives’ many treasures is a large, heavy book called the “Distinguished Visitors Book”, a record of signatures from famous visitors to the Institute from 1948 to 1973. To look at, it is a worn book with crumbling pages onto which […]

Posted in: Campus Chronicles, UncategorizedTagged: CFTRI, IISc Archives, IIT Madras, Milli
30SEP

‘I dabbled in many things…and gained a lot of happiness’

PR Krishnaswamy, alumnus of the Department of Biochemistry, has had a distinguished yet unconventional research career. In the second of this two-part profile, he recounts how he went from academia to industry to the corporate world and back, all the while pursuing his research interests   It was a rainy day in July 1973 when […]

Posted in: History, InterviewsTagged: CFTRI, Department of Biochemistry, PR Krishnaswamy

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