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Site for NCBS campus at GKVK ( without levelling ).jpg
The shrubland on the campus of the University of Agricultural Sciences where NCBS stands today, c 1991
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BV Sreekantan, former director of TIFR: The 1985 negotiations with the Planning Commission to set up national centres under TIFR to justify the scope of proposed programmes, including NCBS and GMRT.
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BV Sreekantan, former director of TIFR: Reflecting on the search for land in Bangalore for NCBS, c 1987.
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Govind Swarup, former faculty member at TIFR: Recounting a story of a TIFR Council Meeting where JRD Tata advocated the setting up of many national centres under TIFR.
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Vidita Vaidya, faculty member at TIFR: Weighing in on the perception of NCBS as a rule breaker -- looking at the broader good rather than being bogged down by details
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K VijayRaghavan, faculty member at NCBS: Recounting the wading through bureaucracy in the late 1980s, and the different attitudes of the early NCBS faculty.
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Virendra Singh, former director of TIFR: On the need for NCBS autonomy and yet defining the link to TIFR.