We are joined by Ravi and Tara, two incredible alumni of a private university in India. They talk to us about their experience ideating, researching and writing their undergraduate theses, and how their pre-doctoral work in India sparked their ongoing research journeys in the fields of economics and culture studies.

Recommendations

• Megh
• • Inside Out-2
  • Baby Reindeer
  • Bridgerton Season 3 Part 2
  • "Real Versus Imagined Gender Harassment"
  • "Animal homosexual behaviour under-reported by scientists, survey shows"
  • "Email responsiveness varies based on the pronouns in the requesters’ email signature: The role of they/them pronouns"
• Vatsal
• • "Science must right a historical wrong", by Henrietta Lacks https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02494-z
  • The Gas Man https://open.spotify.com/show/6edrtr63RobTNRuLvU2sfj
• Aditya
• • Not all ‘open source’ AI models are actually open: here’s a ranking https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02012-5
  • Franz Deval Different
• Tara
• • Siddhartha Mukherjee Emperor of All Maladies https://www.parnassusbooks.net/book/9781439170915
• Ravi
• • Ben Lambert https://www.youtube.com/@SpartacanUsuals