Indumathi is a particle physicist at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai. She works on mysterious sub-atomic particles called neutrinos. Indu is pushing for an underground neutrino observatory - a project that has been dogged by controversy ever since its conception. In this episode, she talks about the science of neutrinos and why we must not be afraid of them.

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A conversation with one of the very few women leaders at Benaras Hindu University who is an award-winning biotechnologist. Kavita has had a long journey at BHU starting with her PhD and then returning to set up a laboratory from scratch at one of the oldest and tradition wrapped universities of modern India. She opens about how she had made it this far and her current work in environmental biology for which she holds multiple patents.

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Anu Sabhlok is a social scientist, architect and feminist scholar at IISER Mohali. She has been relooking the definition of "nation" with the help of migrant labourers who build India"s border roads every year. For many years she has been travelling with the labourers as they build the Indo-Tibetan border roads and then back again to their homes in central India. Her research reflects the realities of contemporary India.

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