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IISc started its undergraduate program in 2011. Even with a small annual intake, we now have some 350 UG students at IISc. With such an abun...

Moises Velasquez-Manoff at Opinionator : What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend? Andrea Peterson in The Switch : How one publisher i...

In a short, interesting interview in Chemistry Views , Prof. Desiraju, a colleague at IISc, shares his views on a variety of things. What mi...

Three of my popular science books in Tamil language have been published now by Tamizhini and Amrutha publishers. Details with links to Int...

... In 2007, the U.S. State Department issued roughly 40,000 F-1 student visas to residents of mainland China. (Visa numbers may not corresp...

Via Inside Higher Ed , here's a university president revealing what he does in a lonely campus during the holidays:

Consider this: http://iraj.in/Conference/2013/Pune/ICRIEST/ Seems like an impressive conference, and getting a paper published in this conf...

We have covered cases of materials engineers (actually, metallurgists -- a word that has gone out of fashion in my tribe) who went on to be...

Academics hide snarky, clever comments in the acknowledgements section -- Meredith Carpenter and Lillian Fritz-Laylin in Slate . The Guar...

Here's a great post at The Guardian by Ally Fogg on why the pardon is "entirely, profoundly wrong" though it "will be we...

The 2013 Margazhi   Music Season in Chennai is going on. My reviews for the Tamil news daily Dinamalar can be read on page 7 in the Chen...

It all started with a post -- Through My Looking Glass -- by Stella James who alleged that she was harassed by a "recently retired...

Freudian slip, or misspeak? In either case, this fabulous fail of a tweet is way too funny: Urged people to start voting early, vote for ...

Dhimant Parekh: Of Rains, Cows and a Picture : "For that moment, we four [three men and a cow] were all in one world, in one picture....

Wildlife photographer, author of Secret Lives , and IISc alumna Natasha Mhatre writes about the hard work that went into the wonderful pott...