Eighty-five year-old Ramiah, or Ramu to those who know him well, worked in IISc for 44 years. Thirty six of these were spent in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. In this article, he recounts his long association with the Institute and his close relationship with former Director Satish Dhawan I was born on […]
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My Father, Joseph
A contemporary of B Ramiah, Joseph Aroikiaswamy Doss was also a technician at the Department of Aerospace Engineering for many decades. Here, his son John remembers his father’s work ethic and his commitment to family and faith My favourite memories of my father are from the time when I was a young boy […]
It Takes a Village
Lab techs and project assistants, toolmakers and maintenance crew make invaluable contributions to research projects Sandeep Eswarappa, an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry in IISc, works with small, almost microscopic animals called tardigrades. As a young investigator setting up a new lab with an unfamiliar model system, he needed all the […]