Science, Technology and Society in India
A public platform for teaching, dialogue, research, writing, and shared resources.
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Bibliography, reports, teaching materials, conference files, readers, and public records.
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Conferences, workshops, reading-group sessions, calls, and public conversations.
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City chapters, reading groups, local activity, and ways to participate in STS-IN.
Open CommunitySTS-IN Main Website
Fortnightly
History of Science and Technology Reading Group
How do histories of science and technology in South Asia reorganize the questions STS asks about institutions, expertise, and public life?
Fortnightly
Digital STS Reading Group
How do digital systems become public infrastructure, and what forms of accountability can STS make visible?
Fortnightly
Feminist STS Reading Group
What does feminist STS help us notice about bodies, care, expertise, and institutions in South Asian contexts?
Fortnightly
Energy, Environment, and Climate Reading Group
How can STS reframe transition debates without losing sight of livelihoods, local knowledge, and uneven exposure?
Local chapters, reading groups, and public routes should be visible at a glance.
Mumbai
Prathamesh Antarkar and Hariprasad / Local meetups and chapter coordination
prathameshantarkar@gmail.com
Delhi
Ashish Gosain, Santosh Kumar, and Rishabh / Recurring chapter meetings and shared sessions
santoshkn@gmail.com
Bengaluru
Joyeeta Dey, Aditi Dey, and Siddharth / Reading circles and local chapter coordination
joyeetadey@nias.res.in
Chennai and Pondicherry
Faheem Muhammed MP and Ajisha KV / Chapter meetings and regional coordination
ajisha.kv51@gmail.com
Hyderabad
Manisha / Meetups and chapter coordination
mani.street@gmail.com
NEXUS Publication
NEXUS should feel authored, curated, and intellectually alive rather than like a generic blog feed.
Essay
A grounded reflection on waste, expertise, urban infrastructure, and the limits of technical fixes.
STS-IN Contributor / June 2, 2026 / 10 min read
Editorial formats
Essay / 8 min read
A sharp entry point into constructivism, evidence, interpretation, and STS debates about knowledge.
Essay / 11 min read
A NEXUS essay on methods, politics, and reflexivity in studying surveillance systems.
Report-back / 6 min read
A report-back from the first Digital STS reading group session and its emerging discussion agenda.
Resource Hub
Bibliography, teaching, reports, reading lists, and conference materials should be discoverable by topic and use case.
Resource Spine
The Resource Hub now has a clearer editorial spine: bibliography, reports, teaching routes, conference records, and supporting documents remain connected instead of disappearing after a single event cycle.
Resource entries
15
Structured routes across bibliography, reports, teaching, and conference material.
Linked files
11
PDFs, images, and external research pathways visible inside the public site.
Conference documents
5
Programmes, registration records, and supporting files carried into the new site.
Editorial report-backs
10
NEXUS pieces that keep the event and network afterlife intellectually visible.
Bibliography
Literature reviews, syllabi, seminars, and topic mapping.
Reports
Roundtables, institutional memory, conference outputs, and public records.
Teaching
Syllabi, modules, classroom prompts, and methods support.
Reading Lists
Theme-based readers for seminars, chapters, and reading groups.
A Zotero-linked bibliography route for STS research, teaching, and reading groups in India.
A network report spanning 2023-2025, retained as part of the public institutional record.
The final conference programme preserved as the stable public session record for the first STS-IN conference.
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