Although we have been plagued these past weeks by extraordinary climate events, including the uncharacteristic humidity in our own city, India will be focusing today – counting day – only on its political climate. Leslie Coleman lives on in Bengaluru through the annual Coleman Memorial Lecture that UAS hosts each year on June 16, his birthday It all began, with …
On a small round table flanked by four chairs, a tomato placed on a velvet-shrouded stand gleams dully under a glass cloche, an unlikely gemstone. “This installation encapsulates the story of food from the field to the breakfast table,” says Pragya Bhargava, one of the three artists behind the recently launched ‘Breakfast Table’, a multi-sensory exhibition at the Archives at …
“Coleman was a complete person, as a scientist and a human being,” says Dr. B. Mallik, retired Dean, UAS Bangalore, who has been working on the biography of Dr Leslie C. Coleman, a renowned mycologist and entomologist who went on to become the first director of the Department of Agriculture in Mysore State. “We are all highly indebted to Coleman …
