As she looks out over the street from her single room apartment in Bengaluru, Rekha is positioned at the balcony and the city is waking. It is October 10, World Mental Health Day. But today will be another day: She will wake up, prepare breakfast,
Rabindranath Tagore’s connection with Mungpoo goes far beyond literature. it is a place where his creativity, compassion, and scientific curiosity came together. Even today, his legacy lives on through people like Shishir Routh, who has dedicated his life to preserving the poet’s memories. Shishir Routh of Mungpoo has
Doctors at Kolkata’s PG Hospital witnessed a ground-breaking achievement in public healthcare by a successful removal of one of the largest known Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasms (SPN) ever recorded, saving the life of a 17-year-old girl from Kaliachak in Malda district. The rare pancreatic tumour, found at the head of
He not only discovered the first invitro fertilization technique of India, under him the first test tube baby of India, Durga, was born in 1978. Yet Dr Subhash Mukhopadhyay of Kolkata never got his due recognition. Instead he was ridiculed by his own colleagues, ostracized,
If mangoes of summer are rightly attributed as the ‘King of Fruits,’ Bengal’s Jackfruit is not far behind. In many fairytales of our childhood we often read how even a jackal comes running at the smell of this huge fruit as it ripens. True, the
The date was May 29, 1918. A ship loaded with Indian troops from World War I anchored at the port of Bombay and with it arrived the infamous influenza virus, also known as the Spanish Flu that created another pandemic just 100 years ago. Soon,
The youngster missed his mother terribly. She lived far away from him at Khulna with his father. He and his siblings stayed in their maternal uncle’s home at Netra in Diamond Harbour. He had heard with trepidation how elders discussed in hushed tones how critically
When well-known scientists and medical practitioners attend college seminars in India on cholera, they often conclude their lectures with two questions addressed to the audience -- who discovered the causative agent of the disease cholera and the other question is, who discovered cholera toxin. Invariably
Living as I do in the Hazra area, one of the oldest localities of South Kolkata, I have often walked down Ashutosh Mukherjee Road with a particular signboard always attracting my attention: 'Russa Pharmacy, established in 1919'. I have seen long queues of patients waiting outside, but hardly