Interview with Rama Govindarajan

Monsoon physicist talks through her journey resisting pressure to be ‘ladylike’ and becoming the only woman of 54 in chemical engineering class

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January 20, 2022

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Rama Govindarajan, dean of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore

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