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8 simple ways to show employee appreciation
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Workplace culture is becoming more open and dynamic, making employee recognition an even more essential aspect of an organization. When an organization fails to appreciate its employees, they will feel undervalued and unsure if their efforts are genuinely contributing to the company's progress. Appreciation and recognition in the workplace helps employees to understand that their work is meaningful. It also helps employees to work harder and better. According to a survey conducted by Deloitte, more than 80% of the employees think that a simple thank you would make them feel appreciated.
Why employee appreciation is important?
Showing employees that you appreciate them will help them to feel good about themselves and their work. Happy employees tend to be more productive and efficient. Recognition also creates an atmosphere of trust between employees and management. A survey conducted by Forbes revealed that employee appreciation is one of the most cost-effective ways to improve employee morale. Building a culture of appreciation leads to a more positive work environment that fosters collaboration and innovation. When employees are well-appreciated in their organization, they'll find fewer reasons to quit their jobs, decreasing turnover. Research conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics revealed that lack of respect is one of the primary reasons why employees decided to leave a company.
Here are some small but meaningful ways to help your employees feel appreciated and valued at work:
1. Say thank you often
The validation that employees receive from a simple thank you after completing a challenging work task can do wonders. A verbal thank you goes a long way in helping employees to work harder for their organization. It seems small, but it shows to employees that their work is respected and important. Not thanking employees enough can cause employee morale, productivity, engagement, and happiness to suffer, and it will eventually drive people away from your organization. A lack of gratitude can also undermine the productivity of your business. Always thank your employees for going the extra mile, and tell them how their efforts have added value to your organization.
2. Build an atmosphere of trust
Trusting your employees is one way to show appreciation and recognition. When you trust your employees and allow them to take care of their own work, it helps them believe that their autonomous efforts are both satisfactory and relied upon in the company. When employees are micromanaged, they become frustrated, demotivated, and disloyal. Build trust with your employees by:
Supporting their hard work
Being transparent with them
Including them in the decision-making process
Respecting and implementing their ideas
Educating your managers about the need for trust
Also read:7 tips to earn your employees' trust
3. Encourage growth and development
Employees are constantly seeking opportunities to strengthen their skills. They will feel truly respected and appreciated if their organization provides growth and development opportunities for them, especially after a great work performance. This makes them loyal to their organization, builds a strong employee-employer relationship, and helps them to perform better. Here are some tips to provide better development opportunities to your employees:
Analyze the learning needs of your employees
Develop a training plan based on those needs
Introduce appropriate trainers and courses
Provide real-time feedback to your employees
4. Employ gamification for appreciation
Gamification is an innovative trend that can make employee appreciation more efficient and effective. Foster friendly competition in the workplace, and help everyone stay motivated and engaged. Providing meaningful rewards for performing well can not only show recognition, but also make work more fun and interesting for your employees. For example, you can fix a certain number of points for work different tasks. At the end of each month, the total number of points earned by each of your employees can be calculated, and those with the highest number of points can be rewarded.
5. Offer great perks and benefits
Benefits including health insurance, bonuses, pension plans, maternity and paternity leave, wellness programs, flexible time off, and more play a significant role in showing employees that they are appreciated. When the needs of your employees are satisfied by your organization, they will be dedicated to their jobs and the quality of their work will be better.
6. Utilize social media to appreciate employees
With the millennial population seeping steadily into the workforce, it's difficult to keep away from social media. Recognizing employees on the social media platforms they use shows that you want to communicate your appreciation genuinely. It's also one of the most cost-effective ways to show that you care. When employers take the time to write an honest thanks toward their employees, it can have a hugely positive impact on employee morale. Use your organization's official social media to post about the achievements of your employees. Before posting, encourage all your employees to follow your company's social media accounts.
Also read:4 ways HR professionals can use social media to their advantage
7. Listen to your employees
Making time for employee feedback and listening to what they have to say about your organization is another great way to make your employees feel valued. It shows that you are concerned about their opinions and helps you understand what your employees want. This way, you can quickly resolve issues with solutions that will suit your workforce. When gathering feedback from employees:
Avoid distractions while listening
Don't interrupt their conversation
Ask relevant and appropriate questions
Consider their thoughts before offering a solution
8. Introduce a fun element
After achieving the most difficult target of the year or completing a project within its deadline, use fun traditions to help your employees relax! Fun can be one of the best forms of appreciation. It helps your employees beat anxiety and stress while motivating them to perform better at work. Awards ceremonies, peer recognition programs, team lunches, office parties, and more are just some of the fun activities that you can use to make your employees feel appreciated and valued.
Employee appreciation is directly related to employee engagement, productivity, morale, retention, happiness and much more. The way you value your employees matters the most to them. We hope these tips gave you an idea on how to appreciate your employees to build a positive and happy workforce. Whatever ideas you take from them, remember the most important thing is to be genuine and respectful.
Also read our blog 5 Ways to Show Your Employees You Care this Employee Appreciation Day
- Tarika
Content Specialist at Zoho People
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Hard News: Show some decency
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
making numbers work for us…
Now it transpires that Hekia Parata may have been wrong…Education Minister Hekia Parata has been forced to abandon a claim that National has presided over a 15 per cent increase in teachers – after revelations that Novopay clouded the numbers.
Parata has been quoted for several months saying that, under the present Government, "teacher numbers have gone up by 15 per cent".
But inquiries by The Dominion Post have shown most of the increase stems from a payroll error.Imagine my surprise…
Kracklite, in reply to
The post-war cathedral is pretty cool though.
Coincidentally, the architect of the cathedral, Basil Spence, was brought in to design the Beehive (though the story goes that he did a few drawings and the MoW did most of the work).
Bart Janssen, in reply to
Stella is the best lil' dog in the whole wide world ;)
I love the way she just wanders around the end of our street as if she owns the place. Happy to interact with people, but not obsequious. Just checking out her domain
Bart Janssen, in reply to
Ummm …. err …. wow …..
It's all really depressing. Somehow we've become a society where it's OK to bully people into to doing what they passionately believe is wrong. Where bullying is rewarded with power. Where victims are blamed.
I get that people have different ideologies and I get that people genuinely believe that National party policies are the best for the country, but I don't get them accepting corrupt bullys running their party and the country. Because that has very little to do with enacting National party policy and everything to do with increasing the personal power and wealth of those same corrupt individuals.
Whaledump seems to have been deactivated - it's tough for even a whale sized little fish to swim against the tide of corporate interest.
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
I love the way she just wanders around the end of our street as if she owns the place. Happy to interact with people, but not obsequious. Just checking out her domain
So I'm now hoping you live in the same St as us. She has a few friends and she does visit them and we are close to Dom rd end so she knows the bank staff ,the fish shop, bottle shop, but she does check out the berms up to the bank. It's quite cute that neighbours drop off bones for her. But I digress.
Kumara Republic, in reply to
I think that we have here the opposite of the "big lie" (of which "someone" once said, if it's a big enough lie then no one will believe you could have told such an un-truth, and so they'll believe you)—we have the "big truth"…it's a big enough truth, and has such implications, so they'll not believe you.
Somehow it overlaps strongly with "fiddling while Rome burns" territory, where there's a major crisis erupting but everyone's in denial of it. I've found myself using that phrase rather a lot lately.
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
it's tough for even a whale sized little fish to swim against the tide of corporate interest.
and the white-baiting season has just begun...
Kumara Republic, in reply to
Take a crumb of comfort from the Nixon analogies: his approval rating was 60% around the time of Watergate, and it took a long time to make a dent in that, but history has not exactly judged him kindly.
On the other hand, the Internet was still a military research project in the early 1970s, so news didn't travel quite as fast in those days.
Bart Janssen, in reply to
So I'm now hoping you live in the same St as us.
Yes we do. Just a bit further down. And the digression is good for my soul at least and others can just skip over it.
Well that's good. Otherwise she would have secrets and I'd have to have words with her.
Cecelia, in reply to
And she wears the right colour scarf:)
Cecelia, in reply to
I can still see Whaledump. My ISP disguises IP address???? Technically ignorant but ... Netflix etc.
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Of course. She's a sharing caring kinda gal.
And he's back at @whaledump2 which I/S reports has been verified by Nippert.
Off-topic, however, for those that may be interested...
Daft question time. Do the documents in the Jordan Williams @whaledump today point to the possibility that policy changes in Cabinet were bought?
nzlemming, in reply to
Only if money passed to a person at Cabinet level. If they just paid Slater to pass it on through his channel to Collins, that's "just" lobbying.
But something that should definitely be investigated, no?
nzlemming, in reply to
Oh, most definitely and in minute detail. And I'd say that whether it was Collins or Cunliffe under the gun. This just is not the way elected officials should behave.
Richard Aston, in reply to
But I digress
Digress away Sofie its like I am trying to looking at this huge picture byzantine in its complexity, then a dog walks through the picture. Perfect.
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
then a dog walks through the picture. Perfect.
Well, we just got back from her Doctor who has to come out to the car because Stella wont go in there and it seems she is still ok. She isn't in pain yet. so ,off North this weekend for r and r to her favourite spot. Shes not even needing pain killers yet. All good.
This bears repeating:
10 motorcycle cops, 6 police cars. 2 white buses with blacked out windows. Lights flashing, traffic stopped, to let this motorcade through Mt Eden Village heading into the city. Does anyone know who is in town? AK town? And would need that much security?
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Saboteur: The Lost Mines is a board game inspired by the famous Saboteur card game. While it uses ideas of the basic game, the expansion, and the two-player game, it is also very different.
In this game, players are divided in two clans; each clan contains loyal dwarves, selfish dwarves, and a saboteur, secretly working for the opposite clan. Players have their own pawn, and the dwarves must move over the paths in order to physically reach the four goal cards, one of which contains a sleeping dragon that you don't want to wake, so try to avoid that one, if possible. The (non-dragon) goal cards yield a variable number of points, depending on the displayed, but secret, treasure cards.
Sabotage isn't performed against a specific player, but directly on the board by playing blocking path cards or adding tokens. In this way, the sabotage affects always all players, including yourself. As opposed to Saboteur: The Duel, path cards you play don't have to be linked to your own start card, which offers many more sabotage options. Even so, no player is ever out of the game, either temporarily or permanently.
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General Travel Terms and Conditions Oceanwide Expeditions B.V.
Thank you for deciding to book a trip with Oceanwide Expeditions (hereinafter referred to as: "OE"). Before making a definite booking, we recommend you (hereinafter referred to as "contracting party") to read carefully the following travel conditions. These general travel conditions and the term contracting party apply both to private persons (direct booking) and to (travel) organisations (see par. 1.2).
N.B.: when referring to OE, this automatically includes the affiliates, owners, officers, agents, employees, associate and/or sister companies of OE.
1. Reservation of trip / travel notification
1.1 The contract comes about by means of a written acceptance by the contracting party of the offer of OE, and/or payment of the required deposit or invoiced total amount, upon which a binding travel contract with OE is effected, to which all conditions set out in paragraph 1.3 up to and including paragraph 11.3 apply. If the contracting party in addition to him/herself also lists one or more other persons on one notification form, this contracting party is automatically personally responsible for all obligations ensuing from the travel contract (in line with the general travel conditions of OE) which concern himself and the other persons booked.
1.2 If the contract has come about by means of a written acceptance and/or payment as per par. 1.1 by a (travel) organisation (as in the case of but not limited to tour operators, agencies, travel agents, foundations, societies etc.), this (travel) organisation enters into a binding travel contract with OE. The (travel) organisation in question is then exclusively considered the contracting party to which all conditions set out from paragraph 1.3 up to and including paragraph 11.3 apply, irrespective of the possibility that the (travel) organisation in turn enters into a binding travel contract with clients it has recruited (such as but not limited to, private persons, members of the (travel) organisation, travel agents and third parties in general).
1.3 The contracting party shall - before the effecting of the travel contract and its implementation - provide OE with the necessary (personal) data concerning him/herself or third parties - in the case of a (travel) organisation: the client(s) of the (travel) organiser. Incorrect or incomplete provision of (personal) data can result in faulty vouchers, air tickets etc. OE shall not be held liable for such.
1.4 All trips booked through OE will be confirmed by OE by means of a confirmation (invoice) sent to the contracting party.
2. The travel offer / the travel elements
2.1 The scope of the travel offer (the travel elements) booked by the contracting party is contractually recorded in the travel confirmation (invoice), in combination with the description from the most up-to-date brochure / programme description, sailing schedules, day-by-day itineraries of OE and / or (other) relevant publications of OE.
2.2 OE bears no responsibility for photos, brochures and other information material, insofar as these have been published or distributed under the responsibility of third parties, nor for any undertakings, expectations or promises of third parties towards the contracting party.
3. Payment
3.1 On the effecting of the travel contract, the contracting party must pay an advance of 20 % of the total price to OE, unless otherwise stated in the travel confirmation. The remainder of the price must have been received 60 days before departure date by OE. If the travel contract has been agreed within 60 days of departure, the full price must be paid immediately. Other (deviating) payment policies may be applicable; these are valid only if confirmed by OE in writing (in e.g. the original offer made, travel confirmation, (block charter) agreements/contracts or in additional (separate) written confirmations) and these payment policies shall prevail over those of the here above mentioned standard payment policy.
3.2 After full payment has been received, the travel documents will be sent to the contracting party.
3.3 If the contracting party fails to fulfil the payment obligations, OE will send him/her a written reminder and he/she has the possibility to make immediate payment. If the payment is still not made, the contracting party is liable to pay interest on the sum due of 1% for each month or part of a month of default. Furthermore he/she is liable to pay compensation of extra-legal collection costs equal to 15% of the sum claimed, with a minimum of 50 EURO. If the contracting party fails to comply with his/her payment obligations, OE reserves the right to cancel the contract on the day of default, with no further obligations. OE is (however) entitled to charge the cancellation costs incurred (in line with paragraph 6 or as agreed otherwise in the travel confirmation).
3.4 If the payment is then made, but OE cannot send the travel documents on time (before the start of the journey) to the contracting party, any additional dispatch costs will be charged to the contracting party. OE may not be held responsible for any travel documents not arriving on time or any (further) events that may cause postponements / cancellations, resulting from late payments.
4. Changes in travel elements / price changes
4.1 Changes in the travel offer, agreed in the travel confirmation / invoice (which occur before the start of the journey) are permitted only if they do not substantially alter the nature of the trip. This includes, among other things, changes made by the airline, changes in flight departure times, changes referring to hotel overnight stays before or after the main journey, minor changes in the travel programme or excursion offer. Such changes may not be used by the contracting party as a reason for cancelling the travel contract or to put forward a claim of any kind to OE.
4.2 The agreed price is based on the prices, exchange rates, duties and taxes as known to OE at the time the publication went to press and at the time of the travel confirmation. OE reserves the right to raise the agreed price (on the grounds of, among other things, unforeseeable increases of e.g. exchange rates, sudden increased prices of accommodation providers, airlines, duties, taxes, harbour dues and fuel prices). In the case that a price alteration is considered necessary by OE, OE is obliged to inform the contracting party in writing of this at the very latest 60 days before the day of departure. Price increases made within 60 days of the start of the journey are not permitted. In the case of a price increase of more than 5 % of the total price of the trip, the contracting party is entitled to cancel the trip without incurring any costs.
5. Cancellation of the trip by OE
5.1 Not withstanding to what is mentioned elsewhere, OE reserves the right to cancel any trip prior to or during the trip for compelling reasons, in which case the payment in advance (indicated in the invoice / travel confirmation) will be paid back to the contracting party and OE does not accept any claims, that may be related to such a cancellation, such as but not limited to loss of joy (of holiday), consequential and/or indirect (commercial) damages, loss of earnings and or profit, loss of market, loss of business, loss of customers, loss of opportunities, commercial losses or damages, loss of or damage to commercial image and or reputation. OE is furthermore not liable for and does not accept any claims for any costs made by the contracting party, such as but not limited to other travel elements such as but not limited to flights, hotels, connecting programmes, (travel)insurance's etc.
5.2 Not withstanding to what is mentioned elsewhere, OE has the right to cancel the scheduled trip up to 30 days before departure, if the minimum number of participants has not been achieved. Any payment already achieved from the contracting party will be paid back by OE if the contracting party is not in agreement with an alternative trip offered by OE.
5.3 Not withstanding to what is mentioned elsewhere, OE has the right in the case of force majeure (such as but not limited to war, uprising, natural disasters, abnormal / exceptional weather and ice conditions, legal stipulations of the local/regional authorities and other events and situations that are beyond the control of OE) to cancel the trip. OE may not be held liable for force majeure. If situations of force majeure occur before departure date and OE should cancel the trip, payments made in advance will be paid back to the contracting party. If situations of force majeure occur during the trip, OE will try to offer an alternative programme. If this is not possible, either OE or the contracting party is entitled to cancel the trip. In such a case, OE may not be held financially liable. OE is obliged to assist the contracting party - in the case of a (travel) organisation: the client(s) of the (tour) organiser - in obtaining a return trip/flight. The contracting party him/herself is responsible for the costs of this.
6. Cancellation of the trip by the contracting party
6.1 The contracting party may cancel the travel contract (exclusively in writing) at any time before the beginning of the trip. In the case of cancellation by the contracting party, OE is entitled to charge the following cancellation fees to the contracting party:
- up to and including 90 days prior to departure: 20 % of the total price;
- from 89 days up to and including 60 days prior to departure: 50 % of the total price;
- from 59 days up to and including the day of departure: 100 % of the total price .
6.2 Other (deviating) cancellation policies / fees (for example in the case of group charters, block charters or whole boat charters) may be applicable; these are valid only if confirmed by OE in writing (in e.g. the original offer made, travel confirmation, (block) charter agreements or in communication sent later) and these cancellation policies shall prevail over those of the cancellation policy / fees as mentioned in paragraph 6.1.
6.3 In the case of flight and hotel reservations, a 100 % cancellation fee will apply for those involved costs unless this is a non-refundable ticket / hotel accommodation; in that case the terms and conditions of the related airline company / hotel will apply.
6.4 If the contracting party after booking wishes to introduce changes into the booked trip, this is considered a cancellation and the cancellation costs stated in par. 6.1 and 6.2 apply. In case of minor changes, OE is entitled to charge reservation costs of at least 50 EURO per alteration.
6.5 OE STRONGLY RECOMMENDS the contracting party in the case of a (travel) organisation: the client(s) of the (travel) organiser to take out a cancellation insurance to cover the costs of any cancellation of the trip (see also par. 10.4).
7. Liability of OE
OE is responsible for the selection of accommodation, providers of ships, hotels etc., composition and the quality control of the travel elements and excursions, description of the travel elements in the OE brochures and other publications, the processing and control of the travel confirmation and the travel documents. OE is obliged to aim for a correct execution of the trip according to the travel contract and in line with the expectations the traveller may reasonably have on the grounds of the contract.
8. Exclusion and limitation of the liability of OE
8.1 OE acts as intermediary for the sale of travel elements between on the one hand providers of accommodation /services (such as but not limited to a stay in a hotel, a voyage with a ship, services of dive bases and providers of transport, including helicopters) and on the other hand the contracting party and therefore the liability of OE is excluded. In these cases the conditions of the relevant providers of accommodation/services and/or the stipulations of (inter)national law applies and OE can not be held liable for events such as but not limited to complaints, claims, loss and damage of possessions/baggage, personal injury, death etc.
8.2 All travel elements booked with OE, such as but not limited to a stay on board of a ship and/or excursions and/or programmes off ship (such as but not limited to walking, sightseeing, hiking, camping, mountaineering and/or excursions or programmes on or in the water, incl. kayaking, (scuba) diving, swimming, snorkelling, zodiac driving/cruising and flying activities including helicopter flights) are for 100 % own risk of the contracting party - in the case of a (travel) organisation: the client(s) or the (travel) organiser. OE is therefore not liable for any damage, such as but not limited to (bodily) injury, illness, death etc. whatever the reason or cause may be, including consequential and/or indirect (commercial) damages as set forth in par. 5.1. For diving trips and or supplements and/or for programmes and/or trips for which this is explicitly indicated (such as but not limited to trips with helicopters), the contracting party must sign a Liability Release Form (Waiver), a health certificate signed by a doctor and – in the case of a dive trip - an internationally accepted diving certificate. If the contracting party does not have the required diving certificates and/or diving experience as required for participation, OE is entitled to decide to offer an alternative programme for the contracting party in question or to exclude this person from (certain parts of) the (diving) programme. These limitations apply also if the contracting party is not in possession of the correct (diving) gear, as stated in publications of OE. In the case of exclusion (or of a mandatory alternative programme) the contracting party is not entitled to make any claims (for restitution).
In the case of all (other) travel elements, the contracting party should enjoy generally sound health, according to the guidelines as mentioned in the publications of OE, including the Personal Information Form, that has to be filled out by the contracting party and should be returned to OE. In any case, If the contracting party - undertaking the trip of OE - does not enjoy generally sound health, OE has the right to offer the contracting party an alternative programme or to exclude him from (continuation of) the trip / travel elements. In the case of such an alternative programme or exclusion, OE will not accept any claims (for restitution).
8.3 If OE offers the contracting party an air travel component, including helicopter flights, all liability (such as but not limited to death, injury, delays, cancellations, refunds, loss and damage of baggage) of OE is excluded, even if such an event is at the cost of other travel elements of the trip booked or if such an event would change, postpone, cancel the (nature/scope) of the trip and /or other travel elements) and for this travel component the conditions of the relevant airline and/or helicopter operator and – if applicable - international conventions apply.
8.4 OE may not be held liable for loss, damage and robbery of travel documents, baggage or other possessions.
8.5 Not withstanding to what is mentioned elsewhere, OE shall accept no liability for damage for which there is a claim to compensation based on a travel and/or cancellations insurance (whether effected or not).
8.6 OE may not be held liable for damage as a consequence of the travel contract not being correctly implemented, if the deficiency in the execution of the contract is attributable to the contracting party.
8.7 The trips offered by OE are mainly conducted in "marginal zones" and require the qualification of expedition trips to places where infrastructure and (medical) facilities are often lacking. On booking the trip, the contracting party fully understands that those trips can not be comparable with any other trip. If for any reason such as but not limited to weather conditions, sea currents, nautical reasons, ice-conditions etc., the decision is taken by OE to change the programme and/or the programme cannot be carried out according to the travel description and (certain) places described in the travel programme cannot be visited and/or OE deviates from the programme, if OE has the opinion that such deviation will benefit the quality of the programme, or the trip has to be postponed or (partly) cancelled, OE is not liable for any claims, such as but not limited to refunds, damages, non-fulfilled expectations etc. of the contracting party.
8.8 Notwithstanding to what is mentioned in 8.7, OE has the right to delay or postpone the (remainder of the) trip with a maximum of 24 hours, for any reason in terms of a proper and / or safe execution of the trip, such as but not limited to ship operational matters including spare parts, documents, provisions, crew and staff related matters including flight arrivals. OE accepts no claims such as but not limited to refunds. In the case of longer delays (except for helicopter flights/operations), the contracting party has the right to cancel the trip and OE will refund the travel price booked by OE, or in the case this longer delay occurs during the trip, the travel price will be paid back on a pro rata basis. Other travel elements such as, but not limited to, flights and hotels will not be refunded.
If for any reason the helicopter flights/operations can not be offered, such as but not limited to weather, ice, nautical conditions, technical reasons and break-downs of the helicopters, no claims of any kind such as but not limited to refunds - will be accepted by OE, not even if this such an event would change, postpone, cancel the (nature/scope) of the trip and /or other travel elements of the trip.
8.9 The contracting party – having booked a ship's voyage - is free to use the services of the doctor and medical facilities, however neither the doctor nor OE can be held liable for any claims arising out of such services and does not accept any claims.
8.10 Should OE decide to carry out a medical evacuation during the trip and this may result in alteration or cancelation of the scheduled trip, OE accepts no claims of any kind such as but not limited to refunds.
9. Obligations of the contracting party
In the case of a (travel) organisation: instead of "contracting party" (in paragraphs 9.1 up to and including 9.4) read also "the client(s) of the (travel) organiser".
9.1 The contracting party is obliged to comply with all instructions given by OE and the travel leadership (such as but not limited to trip leaders, guides, diving instructor and diving assistants, captain and crew of the ships, helicopter personal/pilots, local agent and the personnel of accommodation providers such as hotels, resorts and diving locations) in order to benefit the sound execution of the trip. The contracting party is 100 % liable for damage caused by any improper behaviour, such as but not limited to damage to the environment, damage towards fellow travellers or material, damage to the hotels, ships or resorts, to be judged according to the standards of behaviour of the model traveller. The contracting party must not commit any breach of any enactment or Law in the country, including regulations and guidelines such as but not limited to the Antarctic Treaty, International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) and Association of Arctic Expeditions Cruise Operators (AECO) and any breach or violation is solely the responsibility of the travel participant.
9.2 Apart from possible punishment by Law, any contracting party who commits a breach of any enactment, Law or guideline and / or causes such disturbance or who threatens to cause such disturbance, that the proper execution of (part of) a trip is seriously hindered or could result in danger for the contracting party and/or the fellow travellers including OE and / or the environment, can by or on behalf of OE (trip leadership or the local representatives) be excluded from (continuation of) the trip (components). In the case of exclusion, the contracting party is not entitled to make any claim for restitution of (part of) the price.
9.3 If the disturbing behaviour and/or damage and/or breach/violation (as described in paragraphs 9.1 and 9.2) should occur, all costs resulting from this shall be charged to the contracting party.
9.4 The contracting party is obliged to inform the tour leadership of OE of any negligence noted in the execution of the travel contract, which is noted by him at the location – in the case of a (travel) organisation: noted by the client(s) of the (travel) organisation. This should be done as quickly as possible, in writing, or other appropriate form of communication, to the relevant tour leader/expedition leader of OE or the captain of the vessel, who shall immediately do his utmost to find an appropriate solution.
9.5 If an immediate solution for the complaints cannot be found, the contracting party – in the case of a (travel) organisation the client(s) of the (travel) organisation should present these complaints to the relevant (travel) organisation, where the trip was booked, upon which the (travel) organiser shall inform OE - shall be obliged to report the complaint to OE and request help. In the case of complaints about travel elements OE can decide to offer an alternative programme (e.g. hotel, cabin, excursion package) that is virtually identical to that in the originally booked trip (the originally booked travel component).
9.6 OE (incl. the representatives, trip leadership, local agent) is entitled to reject the complaint in the case that the complaint does not seriously influence the character of the trip and/or the complaint results only in hindrance of minor significance, if exaggerated demands are made, if it is impossible to provide help to the contracting party within the set time limit, if the deficiency in the implementation of the contract is attributable to the contracting party him/herself, if the deficiency in the execution of the contract could not have been foreseen or could not be neutralised, or if the deficiency in the execution of the contract is attributable to situations of force majeure (that is those abnormal and unforeseeable circumstances that are independent of the will of whosoever claims it and of which the consequences, despite every precaution having been taken, could not have been avoided, see also situations of force majeure as described in par. 5.2).
9.7 In the case that the complaint has not been satisfactorily dealt with during the trip, the contracting party – in the case of a (travel) organisation the client(s) of the (travel) organisation should present these complaints to the relevant (travel) organisation, where the trip was booked, upon which the (travel) organiser shall present the complaint to OE - shall present the complaint to OE at the very latest within one month of the termination of the trip (the last travel day). The complaint must be presented in writing.
9.8 In the case that the complaint has then not been satisfactorily settled by OE or if proper satisfaction has been not given in this matter, the contracting party is entitled to present the dispute to the District Court of Middelburg in the Netherlands (which court shall have exclusive jurisdiction).
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ESOcast 87: Planet found around closest Star
24 August 2016
This is the ESOcast that no viewer will want to miss. We discuss the result of the quest to find a planet around the closest star to the Solar System.
The Pale Red Dot campaign aimed to find a planet orbiting our nearest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri. Incredibly, the quest succeeded and the team did indeed find a planet. Even more excitingly, the planet, Proxima b, falls within the habitable zone of its host star. The newly discovered Proxima b is by far the closest potential abode for alien life.
In this ESOcast, the results of this groundbreaking research are explained in detail, providing insights into the following points:
- The extensive verification process the team went through to ensure this result was accurate.
- The factors for and against the possibility of life on Proxima b.
- The nature of a "habitable zone" around a star.
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Although Eastleigh was dire for the Tories, most commentators were wrong in suggesting it was also bad for Labour's prospects at the next election. In fact, it confirmed why Labour can still win in 2015, despite its terrible defeat in 2010, because these are times that defy psephological orthodoxy.
First, the Tories took office on a historically low base for a governing party. Their vote had been stuck over nearly two decades, inching up painfully slowly from a dreadful low of 30.7 per cent in 1997, to 31.7 per cent in 2001, then to 32.4 per cent in 2005 and finally to just 36.1 per cent in 2010 – in government without having won. And that despite facing a Labour Party with an unpopular Prime Minister, which had lost trust, and which had carried the can for the worst global economic crisis for 80 years. Not only did the Tories fail to win, they managed to gain a mere five per cent in the thirteen years after their landslide defeat in 1997.
Furthermore, just 23.5 per cent or 10.7 million of the electorate actually voted for them. David Cameron became Prime Minister on a pitifully low base. Apart from when Tony Blair led Labour and despite a significant population rise in the meantime, Cameron achieved the third lowest number of Tory votes since 1931 and the lowest Tory percentage of the electorate since 1918.
Second, Labour under Ed Miliband has quickly recovered its natural vote which had, stage by stage, defected, in the main to the Liberal Democrats, after the introduction of student fees and, above all, the Iraq War. That vote felt utterly betrayed by the Lib Dem leadership's enthusiastic embrace of a right wing economic agenda which makes Margaret Thatcher look moderate; it will very likely stay with Labour and not easily go back to the Lib Dems except, perhaps, as in Eastleigh, where Labour cannot win.
Third, and perhaps most importantly, the Tory-Labour duopoly of British politics seems broken. Since its high point in 1951, when 97 per cent voted Tory or Labour, it has collapsed to just 65 per cent – that nadir the culmination of a long trend in the rise of smaller parties, reflecting progressive disillusionment with British politics and declining turnout. UKIP's stunning performance at Eastleigh confirms that this will not easily be reversed.
Furthermore, in the past, people might only vote every four years in a general election and for their local council, often on the same day. Now there are five-yearly European elections, annual elections for multiple layers of local government in many parts of England, and elections every four or five years for devolved institutions in Wales, Scotland, London and Northern Ireland.
The more opportunities people have to vote for different bodies or posts, the more politically promiscuous they become. The Lib Dems have been the main beneficiaries but also UKIP, Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party. Once people break the habit of a lifetime by not voting either Labour or Tory, they were more likely to do so again and it has become much harder to win them back, even at a general election.
In addition, some people have started to vote for different parties at different elections. In Wales, for example, significant numbers have voted Labour in a general election, Plaid for the Welsh Assembly and Lib Dem or independent for their local councillor. People have started to mix and match, enjoying greater choice and liking the idea of politicians having to work together in power.
As the political scientist John Curtice has persuasively argued, "the hung parliament brought about by the 2010 election was no accident. It was a consequence of long-term changes in the pattern of party support that mean it is now persistently more difficult for either Labour or the Conservatives to win an overall majority."
Coalition politics may become a semi-permanent fixture at Westminster, just as it has in local government. In which case, coalition needs to be done a lot better than under the Cameron-Clegg government, where it has become a byword for broken promises, betrayals and sheer incompetence.
By joining with the Conservatives on an agenda that repudiated all their long claims to progressive credentials, the Liberal Democrats lost, if not forever, then for at least a generation, their niche as the 'anti-politics' party – the reservoir for the growing group of disaffected British voters.
But, the recovery by Labour of its natural supporters apart, there is no reason to suppose that the two main parties will bounce back to their previous hegemony. Some of the anti-politics vote the Lib Dems attracted has gone elsewhere, especially to UKIP and the Greens. Given the crisis in Europe and the fault line in the Tories, UKIP are likely to poll well at the next general election, mainly at the Tories' expense.
All of this means – and Eastleigh confirmed – that David Cameron won't win the next election. Even on a bad day, and doubtless after a relentlessly negative and well-resourced Conservative assault, Labour is well-placed. On a good day, the party could well defy the odds and win outright in 2015. But it is at the very least realistic for Labour to be the largest single party, able to form a government. The question then is: with whom? And the major answer would come if, as also seems likely, the Orange Book Lib Dem leadership – which hijacked the party and took it into bed with the Tories – is repudiated by a membership desperate to restore the tradition embodied by Asquith, Lloyd George, Keynes, Beveridge, Jo Grimond, David Steel, Paddy Ashdown, Charles Kennedy and Ming Campbell.
That assumes, of course, that there are sufficient Lib Dem MPs remaining after a probable battering in 2015. In constituencies where they are well dug-in against the Tories, such as Eastleigh, the Lib Dems will hold their own, although they will certainly lose seats to Labour.
On the same night as Eastleigh, most pundits missed Labour's spectacular victory in a council by-election in a ward where a Tory councillor resigned. It was in the Tory-held seat of Wirral West, a key marginal which Labour lost last time.
Although he still has ground to make up, the new context for British politics means Ed Miliband is looking increasingly like the Prime Minister-designate.
Peter Hain is MP for Neath and a former Labour cabinet minister. His memoirs Outside In are published by Biteback


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Judas Priest Members Begin Writing Sessions for Next Album
As promised, Judas Priest have commenced writing sessions for an upcoming studio album.
On Monday (Feb. 3), guitarist Richie Faulkner shared a photo of himself working in the studio with Priest frontman Rob Halford and fellow guitarist Glenn Tipton. Alongside the image, Faulkner indicated the veteran English rockers were "forging the steel" for the follow-up to 2018's Firepower.
See the snapshot down toward the bottom of this post. The meeting of the three musicians comes after longtime shredder Tipton stepped away from Priest's live performances following a diagnosis with Parkinson's disease. However, the guitarist later confirmed he'd still contribute to the group.
"Giving birth to new metal babies," Faulkner revealed this week via Twitter. He noted the pic represented Judas Priest's "writing sessions 2020 with grand master Tipton and the Mg RHRF DOTF." (The musician often ends his tweets with the acronym for "Rock Hard Ride Free" from 1984's Defenders of the Faith.)
Faulkner joined Judas Priest in 2011, replacing guitarist K.K. Downing. Since Tipton's leave from touring, Andy Sneap assumed that stage position as a live guitarist. (Sneap, a seasoned musician in his own right, co-produced Priest's Firepower and has performed with the groups Hell and Sabbat.)
Listeners keeping tabs on Judas Priest activities were aware that writing sessions would begin around this time. Late last year, Halford filled fans in on the compositional timeline while doubting the LP would be released in 2020.
Last month, Judas Priest were again excluded from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when the 2020 class of inductees was announced. Faulkner responded by saying the Rock Hall "holds no credibility for me and never has."
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This morning opened on a bright note, with the news that Dr. Yamuna Krishnan, a professor at the Bangalore-based fundamental research organization, the National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS), has been awarded the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of the Government of India for fundamental and applied research. Dr. Krishnan receives the award in Chemical Sciences for her work with the structure and dynamics of nucleic acids.
While this is indeed a happy news, it is not unmixed with a tinge of concern. The Bhatnagar Award was instituted in 1958; it seems a monumental shame that only 15 women (out of over 450 total awardees) were given this award until 2013! It certainly doesn't bode well for women scientists in India, especially since India, as a country, has a rich heritage of erudite women educators and philosophers in ancient times.
This line of thought brought me back to an interesting exchange: a while ago, Priya Ravichandran (@binaryfootprint on Twitter), a program manager and writer with the Takshashila Institution, had thrown a challenge on Twitter, asking her followers to name top 5 women scientists of India without doing a Google search first. Easy-peesy, I thought. But as I tried to remember the names, I was mortified to discover that beyond a few, I couldn't remember off-hand the names of any top tier Indian women in the pure sciences fields. Even in my dotage, this was embarrassing. So, with the help of a few kind friends on Facebook (Viva la social media!), I made a list. One caveat: the list, understandably, may be slightly biased towards women in bioscience and related fields – since many of my friends and I are biology researchers. However, I'd love it if you, dear readers, could come up with other names, and leave them in the comments, along with a few words in description.
Here's the list.
Name | Year | Specialization | Notes |
Yamuna Krishnan | 2013 | Chemical Sciences | Chemist, and Senior Assistant Professor at the NCBS, Bangalore; her current research interests include structure and dynamics of nucleic acids and DNA Nanotechnology; she is an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS). |
Shubha Tole | 2010 | Biological Sciences | Neuroscientist, faculty member at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai; major research interest: Genetic mechanisms and signaling pathways of the cerebral cortex and amygdala of the developing brain. |
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay | 2010 | Engineering Sciences | Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta; fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and Indian National Academy of Engineering; main research interest: Computational Biology and genetic algorithms. |
Mitali Mukerji | 2010 | Medical Sciences | Scientist at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi; main research area: effects of genome variation on human phenotypes and susceptibility to diseases. |
Charusita Chakravarty | 2009 | Chemical Sciences | Professor of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; main research interest: theoretical chemistry, chemical, classical and quantum physics. |
Rama Govindarajan | 2007 | Engineering Sciences | Professor of Engineering Mechanics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research; main research interests: instability and transition to turbulence of shear flows, physics of interfacial flows. |
Sujatha Ramdorai | 2004 | Mathematical Sciences | Professor at the School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai; Professor at Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; PhD student of Raman Parimala (see below); mathematician renowned for algebraic theory; fellow of IAS, NAS, Indian National Science Academy (INSA). |
Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath | 1996 | Medical Sciences | Current Chair, Center for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science (IISc); main research interests: pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders, disease modifying therapies. |
Shashi Wadhwa | 1991 | Medical Sciences | Current faculty member, All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences; main research interest: developmental neurobiology, quantitative morphology and electron microscopy. |
Sudipta Sengupta | 1991 | Earth Sciences | Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University; fellow of INSA; conducted pioneering geological studies in Antarctica; expert mountaineer. |
Manju Ray | 1989 | Biological Sciences | Emeritus Scientist, Bose Institute, CSIR; former professor, Department of Biochemistry, Indian Association of Cultivation of Science; main research interest: tumor biochemistry and molecular enzymology. |
Raman Parimala | 1987 | Mathematical Sciences | Currently, Professor of Mathematics at Emory University; member of the INSA and IAS. |
Indira Nath | 1983 | Medical Sciences | Physician Scientist with major focus on immune responses in Leprosy; recipient of innumerable national and international awards, including Padmashree, the fourth highest civilian award in India; fellow and former vice president of the NAS; fellow of the IAS, National Academy of Medical Sciences, and many other national and international bodies. |
Archana Sharma | 1975 | Biological Sciences | (1932-2008) Scientist in the field of Cytogenetics and Genetic Toxicology; founding editor of the international journal The Nucleus; Second woman to be conferred a Doctorate of Science (D.Sc.) by University of Calcutta formerly, professor of Botany, University of Calcutta; member of INSA; author of several books on Chromosome and Genetic techniques. [Link to Obit] |
Asima Chatterjee | 1961 | Chemical Sciences | (1917-2006) Formerly Professor of Chemistry, University of Calcutta; first woman to be awarded a D.Sc. by an Indian university (University of Calcutta); noted for her work in organic chemistry and medicinal plants; member of INSA. [Link to Obit] |
In addition to above, the following is a list of elected women fellows of prestigious national science bodies in India, such as IAS, NAS, and INSA. This compilation is gleaned from the websites of IAS, INSA, as well as individual institutions of the concerned scientists.
Name | Fellowship | Research area |
Ashima Anand | INSA | Physiology and neurology of the cardiopulmonary system |
Scientist at Vallavbhai Patel Chest Institute of the Delhi University; also, a member of the Committee on Ethics of the International Union of Physiological Sciences. | ||
Manju Bansal | INSA, IAS, NAS | Molecular Biophysics, Structural and Computational Biology |
Professor at the Molecular Biophysics unit, IISc; she did her PhD on collagen triple helix under the mentorship of world-renowned biophysicist GN Ramachandran; her work has elucidated the connection between DNA structure and specific functions such as transcription initiation and replication. | ||
Mahtab Sohrab Bamji | INSA, NAMS | Nutritional Biochemistry |
Emeritus Medical Scientist, Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR); she has done seminal work in elucidating the physiology and biochemistry of vitamin B-complex. | ||
Aparna Dutta Gupta | INSA, IAS | Insect Molecular Physiology |
Professor at the School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad; her recent work has included improved methods of pest control via application of biochemistry and insect physiology. | ||
Joyoti Basu | INSA, IAS, NAS | Molecular and Cellular Biology |
Professor at Bose Institute, CSIR; she has done in-depth and high impact work on interaction of innate immunity with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the TB bacillus. | ||
Archana Bhattacharyya | INSA, IAS, NAS | Ionospheric Physics and Geomagnetism |
Scientist and Director of the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai; she studies the dynamics and evolution of ionospheric irregularities, which are produced by unstable plasma in earth's ionosphere, and scatter radio frequency waves. | ||
Rajani Avinash Bhisey | INSA, IAS | Environmental Carcinogenesis, Molecular Epidemiology |
Adjunct professor, University of Pune; she developed a hairless mouse model sensitive to tumor initiation and promotion by environmental agents, such as tobacco; she has identified genetic polymorphisms that confer high oral cancer risk to tobacco users. | ||
Bimla Buti | INSA, NAS | Plasma Physics |
Former Senior professor and Faculty Dean, Physical Research Laboratory; she held many national and international appointments. | ||
Maharani Chakravorty | INSA, NAS, NAMS | Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering |
Honorary Scientist at the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, ICMR; her work has greatly enriched the fields of ribosomes and protein synthesis in Salmonella typhimurium, and of the functions of bacteriophage P22. | ||
Vidya Avinash Arankalle | INSA, IAS | Virology |
Director-In-Charge & Scientist, National institute of Virology; she has conducted excellent research work in pathogenesis of Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) and antibody immunity against HEV infection in pregnant women; she has developed a vaccine Candidate for HEV. | ||
Madhu Dikshit | INSA, IAS | Pharmacology |
Chief Scientist & Head, Division of Pharmacology, Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow; she has made seminal contributions in the understanding the role of Nitric Oxide in free-radical generation by innate immune cells, and in degenerative pathological conditions. | ||
Chanda Jayant Jog | INSA, IAS, NAS | Astrophysics |
Professor of Physics, IISc, Bangalore; many original contributions in the field of morphology and dynamics of galaxies, which have been used to interpret observational studies on galaxies. | ||
Sandhya Srikant Visweswariah | INSA, IAS | Biochemistry, Protein Structure-Function and Signal Transduction |
Professor of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, at IISc, Bangalore; current research focus includes molecular mechanisms of signalling mediated by cyclic nucleotides, and phosphodiesterase enzymes. | ||
Sampa Das | INSA, NAS | Plant Molecular Biology & Biotechnology |
Professor of Plant molecular biology, Bose Institute, CSIR; she has worked on carbohydrate-binding insecticidal plant proteins that inhibit certain agricultural pests, and created transgenic rice, mustard, chickpea and tobacco that were resistant to these pests. | ||
Kasturi Datta | INSA, NAS, IAS | Cellular and Molecular Biology |
Formerly, Professor, School of Environmental Sciences, JNU; currently, adjunct professor, Special Center for Molecular Medicine, JNU; she has made numerous contributions to studies on mammalian physiological processes. | ||
Sulochana Gadgil | INSA, IAS | Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Evolutionary Biology |
Primarily a mathematician, she is currently an Honorary Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences of IISc; she has contributed significantly to the understanding of monsoon dynamics, tropical convection, coupling of the tropical atmosphere to the oceans and agricultural strategies for a variable climate; she also spearheaded the efforts culminating in the Indian Climate Research Programme (ICRP). | ||
Rohini Madhusudan Godbole | INSA, IAS, NAS | Theoretical High Energy Physics |
Professor at the Center for High Energy Physics, IISc, Bangalore; she has done important work on hadronic structure of high-energy photons; she is also known for her hypotheses around innovative ways to seek new particles. | ||
Sudha Gajanan Gangal | INSA, IAS | Cancer Immunology, Basic Immunology Genetic Diseases |
Emeritus Professor at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Biotechnology, Bharati Vidyapeeth in Pune; she had established the cancer immunology division at Cancer Research Institute, and developed several oral cancer cells lines and monoclonal antibodies that recognize a variety of cancer cells. | ||
Rajinder Jeet Hans-Gill | INSA, IAS, NAS | Geometry of Numbers, Number Theory, Discrete Geometry |
INSA Senior Scientist and Emeritus Professor at Punjab University. She is known to have made significant contribution to the field of pure mathematics. | ||
Gaiti Hasan | INSA, IAS | Cellular and Molecular Biology, Genetics, Neuroscience |
Senior Professor at the National Center for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore; current research interests include the role of intracellular calcium signaling in Drosophila growth and neuronal function, by which she seeks to understand role of calcium signaling in human disease. | ||
Hiriyakkanavar Ila | INSA, IAS | Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry |
Formerly, Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur – same institution where she was the first woman to receive a PhD (1968); her research contributions are related to the design and development of novel and efficient synthetic methods for biomolecules, especially heterocyclic substances and domino reactions. | ||
Jaya Sivaswami Tyagi | INSA, NAS, IAS | Molecular Biology of Mycobacteria |
Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi; a long time researcher in mycobacteriology, she has made important contribution to the understanding of the intracellular dormancy phenomenon of this bacterial pathogen. | ||
Sudesh Kaur Khanduja | INSA, NAS, IAS | Algebraic Number Theory |
Currently, a Professor of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Mohali; her research contributions have been in theory of valuations, function field theory and algebraic number theory. | ||
Renu Khanna-Chopra | INSA, NAS | Plant Biochemistry and Stress Physiology |
Scientist affiliated with the Water Technology Center of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute; her work has involved photosynthesis in relation to crop productivity, mechanism of heterosis and drought resistance in crop plants, and she has successfully hybridized drought tolerant and high yielding wheat varieties. | ||
Kamala Krishnaswamy | INSA, NAS, IAS | Medicine |
Former Director of the National Institute of Nutrition, ICMR, where she also established the Advance Centre for pre-clinical toxicology at the Food and Drug Toxicology centre; her research has involved diet-cancer interactions, nutrient-drug interactions, environmental toxicology, non-communicable chronic diseases and vitamin B-complex deficiencies. | ||
Usha Kehar Luthra | INSA, National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) | Pathology, Cytopathology, Cancer Research |
Former Additional Director General, ICMR, and founder Director of the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology, New Delhi; her work significantly progressed the understanding of cancer of uterine cervix, and the role of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in these cancers in India, she was also the Project Director of the National Cancer Registry Project and played a major role in establishing a network of population and hospital-based cancer registries for providing data for cancer research and control in India. | ||
Chitra Mandal | INSA, NAS, IAS | Glycobiology, Immunology |
Senior Scientist at the Infectious Disease and Immunology division of the Indian Institute for Chemical Biology (IICB), Calcutta; her current research interest involves the study of glycosylation of biomolecules in various physiological and pathological conditions. | ||
Minnie Mariam Mathan | INSA, National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) | Pathology, Electron Microscopy |
Physician Scientist with major focus on gastrointestinal ultra-structure; she made two important contribution to infectious disease research: (a) established an in vitro model of the pathogenesis of the intestinal lesion in Tropical Sprue, and (b) elucidated rotaviral etiology of acute diarrhea in children in India, as well as the mechanism of microbial diarrhea. | ||
Asha Mathur | INSA, NAS, IAS, National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) | Medical Microbiology, Virology, Immunology |
Professor and Head of General Pathology and Microbiology at Saraswati Dental and Medical College, Lucknow; her research contributions include diagnosis and investigation of a variety of viral diseases; several aspects of the viral disease, Japanese encephalitis, were elucidated via her studies; she first developed an immunofluorescence-based technique for rapid diagnosis of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) infection in patients, and also helped develop an IgM capture ELISA kit for the diagnosis of JE; she initiated the AIDS surveillance center in UP. | ||
Bittianda Kuttapa Thelma | INSA, IAS, NAS | Genetics |
Professor of Genetics, University of Delhi; her work has involved the understanding of functional significance of repetitive sequences on the X and Y chromosomes, and genetics of complex traits of disease syndromes, such as schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, as well as inflammatory rheumatic and bowel diseases; she developed a DNA-based diagnostics for Fragile X syndrome. | ||
Soniya Nityanand | NAS, IAS | Immunology, Hematology, Stem Cells |
Professor and Chair of Hematology department at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow; her wide-ranging current research interests include basic biology and therapeutic applications of human mesenchymal stem cells, biology and characterization of human bone marrow derived multipotent adult progenitor cells; she has also worked extensively on immune mediated disorders and hematological malignancies. | ||
Veena Krishnaji Parnaik | INSA, IAS | Cell Biology |
Chief Scientist at the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology; her work has significantly elucidated the functional organization of the mammalian cell nucleus, especially the role played by a fibrous nuclear protein called lamin in mediating spatial coordination of transcription and splicing; her observations have progressed the understanding of inherited diseases termed laminopathies. | ||
Poonam Salotra | INSA | Molecular Parasitology and Immunology |
Deputy Director and Scientist, ICMR National Institute of Pathology, New Delhi; she is an acknowledged expert in the field of leishmaniasis; ongoing research interests include genomics, vaccines, diagnostics, immunopathologies, and mechanism of drug resistance in visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis. | ||
Vinodini Reddy | INSA, National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) | Nutrition |
Physician Scientist with important contributions in the field of infant nutrition and growth, nutrition-immunity interactions, protein energy malnutrition and vitamin A deficiency; her research has had significant impact on food and nutrition policies and programs in India. | ||
Rentala Madhubala | INSA, IAS, NAS, National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) | Molecular Parasitology, Functional Genomics |
Professor, School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi; she is an acknowledged expert in the field of leishamania research; ongoing research interests include identification of chemotherapeutic targets, development of diagnostic biomarkers for drug resistance in leishmania and identification of potential vaccine candidates. | ||
Somdatta Sinha | IAS, NAS, INSA | Theoretical and Computational Biology, Complex systems |
Currently, a Professor of Biology at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali; formerly, a Professor at CCMB, Hyderabad. Her research interests include theoretical biology, nonlinear dynamics and complex systems, with the aim to understand the logic and design of biological processes. Her work has also involved analysis of epidemiological data of infectious diseases, studies in host-parasite evolution using genomic data and computational modeling, and use of graph theory to understand macroscopic properties of intracellular networks. In addition, she is an avid Science Educator. | ||
Handanahal Subbarao Savithri | INSA, NAS, IAS | Plant Molecular Virology, Protein Biochemistry |
Professor of Biochemistry, IISc, Bangalore; she has made significant contribution to the understanding of biochemistry and mechanism of viral infection of plants, and elucidated the natures of some plant viruses native to India; her work led to the development of transgenic cotton plants resistant to cotton leaf curl disease. | ||
Chandrima Shaha | INSA, IAS, NAS | Cell Biology, Biochemistry |
Staff Scientist, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi; her work has contributed to the understanding of the mechanisms of cellular defense from oxidative stress and modalities of cell death in both multicellular and unicellular environments; her earlier research involved physiology of reproduction and contraception, and she has served as a member of the ICMR Task Force on male contraception. | ||
Bhagyashri Achyut Shanbhag | INSA, IAS | Reproductive Biology, Endocrinology |
Professor of Zoology, Karnataka University; her research has made outstanding contributions to reproductive and behavioral ecology of South Indian Agamid lizards, elucidating reproductive events and socio-sexual mechanisms controlling reproduction. A first in her field in India, she successfully raised and bred the lizard Calotes versicolor in captivity, and demonstrated how the lizards trade-off energy for manipulation of many reproductive physiological processes; she was one of the first to provide experimental proof to the "stress induced evolution of viviparity" hypothesis. | ||
Ajit Iqbal Singh | INSA, NAS | Functional Analysis, Harmonic Analysis |
Formerly, a Professor of Mathematics at University of Delhi, and currently, an INSA Senior Scientist; she has worked in the "areas of linear operators in locally convex spaces, locally convex algebras, spectral synthesis on hypergroups, applications of harmonic analysis to differential equations and orthogonal polynomials, geometry of the range of a vector measure, and Quotient Rings of algebras of functions and operators" (Note: Text quoted from her INSA page, because I have no clue about Mathematics.) | ||
Ramanathan Sowdhamini | INSA | Bioinformatics, Predictive Genomics |
Associate Professor, NCBS-TIFR; current research interests include analysis of higher level structure and function of proteins and theoretical prediction of protein function from its structure using Bioinformatics and Genome Analysis tools. | ||
Sarala Karumuri Subbarao | INSA, NAS | Cytogenetics of Malaria |
Former Director of the Malaria Research Center, ICMR; an insect geneticist by training, she focused on biology, epidemiology, as well as insecticide resistance of mosquito vectors of various diseases including Malaria; her studies paved the way for the genetic control of mosquitoes; she also developed diagnostic assays to identify non-vector sibling species to the vectors, which helped develop effective control strategies for the malaria vectors. | ||
Sulabha Kashinath Kulkarni | INSA, NAS, IAS | Nanotechnology, Materials Science, Surface Science |
Professor of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune; she is recognized for her work on nanomaterials, hard coatings and high strength aerogels, and she was made noteworthy contributions in the field of Nanotechnology, Materials Science and Surface Science; she is also an enthusiastic author and science communicator. | ||
Ushadevi Narendra Bhosle | INSA, NAS, IAS | Algebraic Geometry |
Mathematical Scientist at TIFR; she is regarded as an expert in the field of "moduli spaces of torsionfree sheaves on singular curves" (Note. Again, quoted from her INSA page. I have no idea what these words mean.). | ||
Usha Vijayraghavan | INSA, IAS | Molecular Genetics, Plant Development |
Professor of Microbiology and Cell Biology at IISc, Bangalore; her current research interests involve the study of genes that control cell division and differentiation, and thereby regulate flowering and plant morphology; she also studies post-transcriptional gene regulation. | ||
Chitra Sarkar | NAS, IAS | Neuropathology, neuro-oncology |
Professor of Pathology at AIIMS, New Delhi; she is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in Neuropathology, where her work has made seminal contributions in several areas related to Central Nervous System malignancies; her research focus has included basic and translational research in Neuro-Oncology, Neuroendocrinology, Neuromuscular Diseases. | ||
Pratima Sinha | IAS | Molecular Genetics of Yeast and Molecular Biology |
Professor of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, Calcutta; her current research area focuses on DNA replication, segregation and cell cycle control in the budding yeast. | ||
Anuradha Lohia | IAS | Biochemistry |
Professor of Biochemistry at Bose Institute, Calcutta; using the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica as a model organism, she studies regulation of phagocytosis, cell division and motility, as well as novel kinesins from eukaryotic pathogens. | ||
Soumya Swaminathan | NAS, IAS | Pediatric Internal Medicine |
Director for the ICMR National Institute for research in Tuberculosis in Chennai, where she leads a multi-disciplinary group of clinical, laboratory and behavioural scientists studying various aspects of TB and TB/HIV; her research contributions have involved investigation of treatment and prevention regimens for TB among HIV-infected adults and children, as well as nutrition, pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenetics of anti-TB and anti-HIV drugs in the Indian population. | ||
Sudha Bhattacharya | NAS, IAS | Molecular Biology, Molecular Parasitology and Genomics |
Professor at the School of Environmental Sciences, JNU; her group uses the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica as a model system to study the biochemistry and molecular biology of various intracellular proteins. | ||
Shobhona Sharma | IAS | Molecular Parasitology, Parasite Immunology and Parasite Metabolism |
Senior Professor & Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai. Her current research interests include biology of the malaria parasite and host-parasite interactions, acquired immunity to malaria, nanolipid carrier-mediated delivery of antimalarials. | ||
Shally Awasthi | NAS, IAS, National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) | Paediatric Pulmonology, Infectious & Parasitic Diseases, Clinical Trials |
Professor of Pediatrics in Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (formerly King George's Medical College), Lucknow; her area of research work is in child survival, especially after acute respiratory infections; her work has been instrumental in formulating national policy in this area. | ||
Qudsia Tahseen | IAS | Nematology, Taxonomy & Functional Biodiversity of Soil and Freshwater Nematodes |
Professor of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University; her area of research is the taxonomy and developmental biology of terrestrial and aquatic nematodes. She is an internationally acknowledged expert in nematode taxonomy, and has contributed to the existing knowledge by inventorying numerous nematode taxa specific to the Indian habitats; she also studied their role as indicators in assessment of the environment quality particularly of Indian wetlands. She holds the distinction of being the first Asian to receive ONTA (Organization of Nematologists of Tropical America) Special Award (2005) for sustained excellence in Nematology. | ||
Renee M. Borges | IAS | Evolutionary Biology & Behavioural Ecology, Plant-Animal Interactions |
Professor, Center for Ecological Sciences, IISc, Bangalore; her research work specializes in the evolutionary ecology of inter-species interactions, and she investigates the sensory biology of these interactions, especially their chemical and visual ecology, using various insects as model systems. | ||
Gomathy Gopinath | NAS, IAS, National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) | Developmental Neurobiology, Neural Plasticity |
Former Head of Anatomy, AIIMS, and an internationally acclaimed neurobiology researcher. | ||
Priyambada Mohanty-Hejmadi | IAS | Developmental Biology, Herpetology |
An accomplished danseuse in the Odissi tradition of India, Priyambada Mohanty-Hejmadi left her dance recitals in favor of pursuing a career in science, which eventually brought her a Padmashri. She was a former vice-chancellor of Sambalpur University, and was an Emeritus Professor of Zoology at Utkal University, both in Orissa; she was one of the first scientists to demonstrate the phenomenon of homeosis, substitution of body parts, in vertebrates [Link to PDF], and had once worked on temperature-dependent sex determination in Olive Ridley turtles of Orissa, an effort which made way for conservation of these endangered species. | ||
Namita Surolia | NAS, IAS | Molecular Parasitology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore; her group studies host-pathogen interaction in Malaria, and the current research interests include identification of malarial parasite specific targets for drug development, study of the role of plastid in the parasite, and analysis of parasite fatty acid synthesis. She holds several global patents for anti-malarial agents. | ||
Sangita Mukhopadhyay | NAS, IAS | Immunology, Cell Signalling, Communicable Diseases |
Group Leader, Molecular Cell Biology Division at the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting & Diagnostics; her current research interest is TB immunology, where she studies how various putative virulent proteins help the bacillus in establishing successful infection by counteracting the protective immune responses mounted by the host. | ||
Jaya Naganathan Iyer | IAS | Algebraic Geometry |
Professor of Mathematics, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai; she continues to work in her field actively, as well as teach and hold seminars. | ||
Nahid Ali | NAS, IAS | Infectious Diseases & Immunology |
Senior Principal Scientist, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, CSIR, Calcutta; her current research interests include diagnosis, immune regulation and drug induced immunomodulation in leishmaniasis, vaccination strategies and protein- and DNA-based candidate antigens, studies on immune stimulation pathways by liposomal vaccines. | ||
Amita Aggarwal | IAS | Clinical Immunology, Rheumatology, Juvenile Arthritis |
Additional Professor at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow; her research interest includes autoimmune rheumatic diseases, especially Juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Her current research is focused on the role of Toll like receptors and IL-1 gene polymorphism in pathogenesis of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and the study of immune pathways involved using gene expression profiling. | ||
Gagandeep Kang | IAS | Enteric Virology, Vaccines |
Physician Scientist in the Department of Gastroenterology, Christian Medical College, Vellore; her research focuses on enteric infections, including rotaviral diarrhea, in children. She studies transmission modes and immune responses to design interventions, and hospital- and community-based disease surveillance utilizing new molecular techniques. Her clinical research work on rotavirus vaccines has lead to the establishment of facilities for Phase I to Phase III studies, as well as laboratory support for vaccine evaluation. | ||
Amita Das | IAS | Plasma Physics, Turbulence, Electron Magnetohydrodynamics |
Professor of Plasma Physics, the Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar; her research in plasma science and electron-magentohydrodynamics has brought her international recognition; her work on "Study of Plasma Turbulence" brought her the recognition from the Department of Atomic Energy – Science Research Council for the Outstanding Research Investigator award in 2006. | ||
Sudeshna Sinha | IAS | Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos, Complex Systems |
Currently, Professor of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali; her work on Chaotic systems is internationally known, and has been featured in the media in connection with its implications for computing systems. | ||
Tanusree Saha-Dasgupta | NAS, IAS | Condensed Matter Physics, Computational Materials Science, Electronic Structure Calculations |
Professor of Physics, SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Calcutta; her current research interests include: first principles electronic structure calculation and study of magnetic, optical and electronic properties of complex materials, and realistic theory of strongly correlated electron system. | ||
Paramjit Khurana | INSA, NAS, IAS | Plant Biotechnology, Comparative Plant Genomics |
Professor of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi. Her research interests include wheat biotechnology, silk biotechnology and somatic embryogenesis. | ||
Purnima Bhargava | NAS, IAS | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Eukaryotic Transcription, Epigenetics & Chromatin |
Scientist, CCMB, Hyderabad; her research interest involves the process of gene transcription in relation to the chromosome, emphasizing on assembly of eukaryotic transcription complexes, epigenetics of transcription, chromatin organization, dynamics, and mechanisms. | ||
Melkote Subbarao Shaila | IAS | Molecular Virology, Viral Immunology |
Professor Emeritus, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, IISc, Bangalore; her major research interests are transcription and replication processes catalysed by the RNP complex of two morbilliviruses, and the development of recombinant subunit vaccines; she is also working to understand the molecular epidemiology of the bacteria Streptococcus in India. | ||
Andezhath Kumaran Susheela | IAS, National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) | Histocytochemistry, Toxicology of Fluoride |
Executive Director, Fluorosis Research & Rural Development Foundation; formerly, Professor of Anatomy and Chief of the Fluoride and Fluorosis Research Laboratories at AIIMS; she has been a vocal opponent of artificial fluoridation of water, and has made depositions against the process in many countries. | ||
Saraswathi Vishveshwara | NAS, IAS | Computational Biology, Molecular Dynamics & Application of Graph Theory to Biomolecular Structure/Function |
CSIR Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biophysics, IISc, Bangalore; her main research interest is focused on the understanding of Protein-Structure, Folding, Function and Dynamics through computational biology approaches. | ||
Mythily Ramaswamy | NAS, IAS | Nonlinear Functional Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, and Applications to Control Problems |
Professor, TIFR Center for Applicable Mathematics; her main area of research is in the analysis of solutions of partial differential equations, which includes questions related to existence, uniqueness and qualitative properties of solutions; her work has important implication for Engineering systems. [Link to an excellent essay about Dr. Ramaswamy by a Florida student.] | ||
Hemlatha Balaram | IAS | Molecular Enzymology, Molecular Parasitology and Protein Engineering |
Professor, Molecular Biology & Genetics Unit, JNCASR, Bangalore; the main research focus of her lab is to understand the biochemistry of the malarial parasite; using protein engineering/ mutagenesis, spectroscopy and X- Ray crystallographic techniques, her group studies various enzymes of the parasite, working towards the development of new antimalarial drugs. | ||
Apurva Sarin | IAS | Immunology, Cell Biology, Apoptosis |
Professor of Immunology, NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore. Her current primary research focus is the mechanisms that govern programmed cell death (apoptosis) in mammalian cells; using model cell lines, her group explores molecular and biochemical correlates of cellular responses to death or survival cues, which are important for the maintenance of the mammalian immune system, apart from other systems. | ||
Indrani Bose | IAS | Condensed Matter Physics |
Senior Professor of Physics, Bose Institute, Calcutta; she is recognized for her work in magnetism in Condensed Matter, strongly correlated systems and exactly soluble quantum models. Her current research interests also include Quantam Information theory, Statistical Mechanics, and Systems Biology. | ||
Veronica Filomena Rodrigues | INSA, IAS | Developmental Biology, Genetics |
(1953-2010) Formerly, Professor of Biology at TIFR, Mumbai; Senior Professor at the NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore; was internationally recognized as a pioneer in the field of neurobiology of smells [Link to Obit]. | ||
Krishna Kamini Rohatgi-Mukherjee | INSA | Photophysics, Photochemistry, Spectroscopy |
(1924-2009) Formerly, Professor and Chair of Department of Physical Chemistry at Jadavpur University, Calcutta; she had the distinction of being the first woman member of the Indian Society of Lighting Engineers, and was the founder of Indian Photobiology Society [Link to Obit]. | ||
Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal | Founding Fellow of IAS | Cytogenetics, plant geography ethnobotany |
(1897-1984) Emeritus Scientist with Center for Advanced Studies in Botany, University of Madras; main research interest: cytogenetics, plant geography, ethnobotany; recipient of Padmashri for her contribution to science. [Link to Life and Times.] | ||
Sipra Guha Mukherjee | IAS, NAS | Botany, Plant Molecular Biology |
(1938-2007) Former Professor of Plant Molecular Biology at JNU; mid-60s onwards, she did seminal work that gradually established her as an expert of Plant tissue culture and Plant Biotechnology; fellow of IAS and NAS. She had a charming, serious personality, and was extremely pro-student as a professor. I have been a student in one of her courses. [Link to Obit]. | ||
Swaran Nityanand | INSA | Nanotechnology, Materials Science, Surface Science |
(1929-2012) Dr. Swaran (sometimes written as Swarn) Nityanand is the mother of Dr. Sonia Nityanand whose name features above; I mention this because PubMed and other database searches for her are made difficult by the fact that her daughter, also "S Nityanand", has been featuring prominently in research papers from around late 90s. Dr. Swaran Nityanand appears to have been a long term associate of the Central Drug Research Institute of Lucknow; during this time, she was involved in research, development and clinical trials of at least three medicinal substances: centporpazine, an anti-depressant; centchroman, a non-hormonal anti-fertility agent (which works by selectively inhibiting estrogen receptors, and is still in use in India under a few brand names); and gugulipid, a cholesterol-lowering agent of plant origin (from gum of the Myrrh tree Commiphora wightii; despite favorable mode of action, its performance in large-scale clinical trials was questionable). She also appears to have worked on atherosclerosis and pulmonary hypertension. I couldn't find much more information on her. |
Apart from these luminaries, I learnt about several other celebrated women scientists of India in course of this exercise: see the following list. Note that I have tried to include only those who made some contribution to science as a researcher – which means I have omitted some names of accomplished women professionals in the field of medicine and healthcare.
* | Shobhana Narasimhan | Professor of Physics at the Theoretical Sciences Unit, JNCASR, Bangalore; her current research interests include Condensed Matter physics, physics of metal surfaces and computational nanoscience. She is also a vocal advocate of women's participation in science in India. |
* | Padmavathy Bandopadhyay | Born in 1944, she had the distinction of being simultaneously many firsts: the first woman officer to have completed the Defence Service Staff College course in 1978, and to command the Indian Air Force's Central Medical Establishment; the first woman Air Force officer to become an aviation medicine specialist, and eventually the Director General Medical Services (Air); the first woman officer to be promoted to the rank of Air Vice Marshal and then Air Marshal; the first woman Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Society of India and the first Indian woman to have conducted scientific research at the North Pole (during late 80s, studying the physiology of extreme cold acclimatization). She was also the the first Lady Honorary Surgeon to the President of India. |
* | Vineeta Bal | Physician Scientist and Professor at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi. Her research interests include the analysis of the roles of T lymphocytes in pathophysiological conditions. |
* | Rupamanjari Ghosh | Professor of Physical Sciences at JNU; her varied research interests include Experimental and Theoretical Quantum Optics, Laser Physics, Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Information, Quantum Measurement, and Magneto-Optics. She is well known for her advocacy for gender-justice and environment-consciousness. |
* | Manikuntala Kundu | Senior Professor of Chemistry at the Bose Institute, Calcutta; her current research interests include host interactions with pathogens Helicobacter pylori and Mycobacteria, stress response in Mycobacteria in cellular and genetic level, and study of bacterial efflux pumps and their role in drug resistance. |
* | Neelima Gupte | Currently, Professor of Physics at IIT Madras, with research interest in nonlinear dynamics, statistical physics, and chaos; she also studies spatio-temporal intermittency in extended systems, chaotic advection and networks. |
* | Chitra Dutta | A physicist and Fellow of the NAS, she is currently Scientist and Coordinator of the Bioinformatics Center, IICB, Calcutta; she specializes in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Her wide research interests include in silico analysis of genome/proteome architectures of host/vector/pathogen systems, and she is internationally acclaimed for her work in these areas. |
* | Anita Mehta | Physicist, currently an Associate Professor at the SN Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Calcutta; her research interests include complexities in natural/granular and intelligent systems, whose examples abound in the natural and human world. She has explored game theory, nonlinear dynamical systems, theories of surfaces and interfaces, and most recently, a cosmological model for the aggregation of black holes. She is internationally recognised as a pioneer of sandpile physics. |
* | Aruna Dhathathreyan | Currently, a Scientist at the Central Leather Research Institute; a biophysical chemist by training, she specializes in spectroscopy of bio-molecules, protein/lipid interactions at interface, material and interface research. |
* | Archana Sharma | Nuclear Physicist, and Staff Scientist at CERN. |
This compilation has 104 names. There are some I am sure I have missed. If you know of prominent Indian women scientists not in these lists, please let me know in the comments. I have included only those who had a modicum of web presence, so that I could find out some information about them. For instance, I found the mention of noted ornithologist and conservationist Dr. Asha Chandola-Saklani, an IAS Fellow and currently Dean of School of Biological sciences at Apeejay Stya University in Haryana; but I omitted her from the list, because I failed to find any other information of substance about her. I am sure there are others like her. In addition, my lists have decidedly had a bias towards the natural sciences – biology, physics and chemistry. So if you are aware of top scientists working in other disciplines of science, pure and applied, please let me know.
Oh, and if you are interested in knowing more about the women scientists of India, you must check out this series from the Women in Science project of the Indian Academy of Sciences, called Lilavati's daughters; it is a collection of biographical essays about past women scientists of India, as well as autobiographical essays written by some current women scientists.


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