botany

An institution builder in the truest of sense, SP Agharkar was a man ahead of his times. But despite his immense contribution to Indian science, few know about him.

The effect such speeches have on impressionable minds is the biggest barrier that women need to break.

Nearly 71 years after the British left India with indigenous plant species, the BSI is set to bring some of them back home from London's Natural History Museum!

In an age when most Indian women didn't make it past high school, Janaki Ammal didn't just obtain a PhD at one of America's finest public universities, she went on to make seminal scientific contributions in the field of botany.